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Practical notes on selling scrap, buying bars and coins, and same-day payment at 55 Hatton Garden.
Smaller bars cost more per gram to buy and are easier to sell in part. Larger bars usually carry a lower premium and are less flexible if you only want to release some of the holding.
A Britannia and a sovereign are both UK gold coins, but they are not the same weight, fineness or fine-gold content. Tax treatment is not something this page decides for you.
A missing assay card does not make a bar unsellable. It changes how the bar is checked. The confirmed offer still depends on weight, fineness and what the test shows.
Stones are not paid as gold weight. The offer follows the gold that remains after gems and fittings are excluded, and you can take the stones with you.
A Hatton Garden valuation is a watched test, a payable weight and an offer you can refuse. It is not a melt and it is not a commitment until you accept.
UK gold stamps record fineness in parts per thousand. They are a guide. The test at the counter decides the purity we pay on.
A gold offer is payable weight times the buying rate for the purity we verify. The spot price, the buying rate and the confirmed valuation are three different figures.
A clear guide to selling gold, silver and platinum in Hatton Garden with testing while you watch and same-day Faster Payments or cash — no courier kit.
How Farringdon Precious Metals prices 999.9 gold bars from the live market in Hatton Garden, which weights we keep, and how to buy gold bars in London with confidence.
How scrap gold is priced per gram in the UK, what karat jewellery is worth, and how to sell broken gold at 55 Hatton Garden with testing you can watch.
