GOLD GRADES OTHER THAN 916/999

As no.1 Jewelry Recycle Store in Japan, we already met many customers that come and sold their gold with us. And 70% of our customer only knew about 916 gold and or 999.9 gold grades. So, some of them didn’t aware about other grades and this situation will make them feel lost lot of amount especially when they try to sell their gold back. Today we want to share with you about gold grades.

GOLD ARE GRADED BY PURITY

K24/999.9/9999

Gold is graded in karat / carat. A karat (carat) is a measurement of the fineness of gold. The gold grade expresses the proportion of gold in a gold alloy or the quality of that gold alloy. Pure gold or fine gold is 24 karat / 24 carat (24K, 24 kt, 24 ct, K24) or 999/999.9 is the grade of gold bullion (gold bar). Pure fine gold is very soft and malleable and does not lend itself well to gold objects that receive a lot of wear, as pure gold wears easily. Not many jewelries made out from K24 gold grades. Normally, this grades used widely in gold bar or gold coin.

K22/916

The grades of gold reduce in karat fineness as more non-gold metal (alloy) is mixed with gold. . The next grade down from pure gold is 22 karat (K22) or 916 , which is somewhat harder but is still easily worn away, especially if in contact with gold of lower grades. K22 gold is used in some gold coins and commonly in jewelries. This gold grades we can easily found nowadays.

K18/750

18 karat (K18)  or 750 is used for high quality jewelries and is the most commonly used grade in Continental European jewelries. This grades we can found normally in White Gold or the jewelries that have diamond or stone. It is considerably harder than the two previous grades so that it is more stable made it with any other stone or diamond. But please bear in mind that this gold grades especially white gold color, the price sometime is higher than K22 price. It is because workmanship and design for white gold make the price a bit expensive. But when you want to sell it in future you will lost quite a big amount because the percentage of gold in this grades is only 75%. Most of goldsmith shop will buy it follow the market purchased rate for gold proportion. Not value of the design.

K14/585

This gold grades also commonly used because this is considerably harder than the most common gold grade. We can found it used in jewelries with big stone such as Jade, Sapphire, Ruby, Pearl, Gem, Crystal and many more.  But most of jewelries that we received from our customer using this grades is old design jewelries. Many now use of big stone become not too popular. This grades also commonly used for man’s ring with stone.

K9/375

This gold grades is widely used in white gold. Many goldsmith will use this gold grades for rings or earrings. You will found it in white gold color and seldom in yellow gold color. We consider this grades is the lowest grades for gold. It’s only contain 37.5% of gold although have K8/333 but K9/375 is often found in the market compared to K8/333. So this also make the price not too high when you want to sell it back.

OTHER GOLD GRADES

There’s also have more gold grades but they are not often brought by our customer.  K23/965, K21.6/22K/900, K20/835, Cin Gam (Chinese seal), K10/417 and K8/333.

We can identified our gold grades by finding it stamped at our jewelries or gold. But the stamping has not always been the same. It is depends also to goldsmith shop or brand. And other countries different gold hallmarking. So any piece of jewelry can have a karat grade or a fineness number stamped on it.

We hope this little information is helpful and useful for you. If you have any inquiry please do not hesitate to contact us. We also can buy you gold with all grades.

JEWEL CAFE CAN BUY ALL TYPE OF GOLD GRADE

Now, we are the one of JEWELRY RECYCLE STORE that can buy your gold even it is broken, single earring, parts, without receipt or certificate! We are fast growing company that originally from Japan. We can accept all gold grades and designs including jewelry, gold bar, gold coin, gold accessories, gold watch and many more.

If you don’t know what to do with your tiny, a part, single, broken, dented or unwanted gold, just bring to us JEWEL CAFE for FREE estimation. Our friendly will help you with the negotiation.

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