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Gold charm

Also known as?	Gold, G Charm, Charm Gold, GC
Release date	15 January 2008 (Update)
Members only?	Yes
Quest item?	Yes
Tradeable?	No
Equipable?	No
Stacks?	Yes
High Alchemy	60 coins
Low Alchemy	40 coins
Destroy	Drop
Store price	Not sold
Examine	A charm used to summon familiars.
Weight	0 kg

Gold charms are used in Summoning to summon certain creatures. It can be obtained as a drop from various monsters. You will also receive 275 gold charms for completing the Wolf Whistle quest. All pouches that use a gold charm also use 1-14 spirit shards and give 4.8 to 93.2 experience each depending on the pouch made. This is the charm mainly used to train summoning at low to moderate levels.

Familiars

Pouches that require gold charms to make generally need a minimal amount of spirit shards.

Gold charms are used to create pouches for the following familiars:

Monsters that drop gold charms

• Aberrant Spectres
• Abyssal Guardians
• Abyssal Walkers - (2 at a time)
• Ankous - (very common)
• Armoured zombie
• Baby black dragon - (drops green and crimson more often than gold)
• Bats
• Banshees - (drop them every so often)
• Basilisks
• Black bears
• Black Knights
• Black unicorns
• Bloodvelds
• Bloodworms
• Black dragons - (3 at a time)
• Blue dragons
• Brine rats - (common)
• Bronze Dragons
• Catablepons
• Cave Crawlers
• Cockatrice
• Cockroach soldiers
• Cows
• Crawling Hands
• Dark Warriors - (rare, in wilderness, but only lvl 8)
• Dagannoths - (all levels) common
• Deadly Red Spiders - (common)
• Dust Devils
• Druids
• Dwarfs
• Earth Warriors
• Flesh crawlers
• Fire giant - (common)
• Ghouls - (very common)
• Giant Rock Crabs - (drops up to 3 at a time)
• Giant Bats
• Giant Crypt Rats
• Goblins
• Green Dragons
• Grizzly bears - (common)
• Guards
• Hellhounds - (very common)
• Hill Giants - (common)
• Hobgoblin
• Infernal Mages - (common)
• Ice Giants - (common)
• Ice Warriors - (most common)
• Iron Dragons - (2 at a time, common)
• Jellies
• Jogres- (One of the best sources)
• Kalphites
• Khazard troopers - (common)
• Killerwatt
• King Black Dragons - (4 at a time)
• Kurasks
• Lesser Demons - (rare)
• Locust riders
• Mithril Dragons - (4 at a time)
• Moss giants - (common)
• Ogres
• Ogress Champions - (extremely common)
• Rock Crabs
• Scorpions
• Shadow Warriors - (can drop 2 at a time (but more often drop crimson. Can also drop green and blue.)
• Pyrefiends - (common)
• Skogres
• Steel Dragon - (3 at a time, common)
• Suqahs
• Thugs
• Terror Dogs
• Tormented Demon - (3 at a time, fairly common)
• Tormented Wraith
• Turoth - (common)
• Wall beasts
• Warrior women
• Werewolves
• Wolves
• Zamorak Mages
• Zamorak Warriors
• Zogres - (very rare)

Other Charm Obtaining methods

Thieving

• Dorgesh-Kaan Average Chest
• Dorgesh-Kaan Rich Chest
• Soul Wars Rewards

v • d • e Charms
Primary	Gold • Green • Crimson • Blue
Secondary	Spirit shards
Tertiary	Abyssal • Obsidian • Talon beast • Ravager • Shifter • Spinner • Torcher