Sample 875 - what is this? Gold 875 tests - price per gram

Nothing soothes the soul as a long-awaited shopping trip, and doubly this process is enjoyable if you have purchased the long-awaited gold ornament, and what can make the eye (regardless of the sex of its owner) more than the brilliance of a noble metal, now in full Possession of a happy buyer?

Glitter and misery of jewelry stores

However, gold is different from gold , and in order for expensive purchase to continue to please its owner, one must know how to distinguish a true precious metal from a fake, which no jeweler will buy even as a scrap.

An indication of the quality of gold products is considered to be a test. The modern market of precious metals is subject to seasonal and economically conditioned fluctuations, however, by some miracle the number of jewelry stores and stores is constantly growing. This is because many shops, intentionally or not, offer their customers products from low-quality alloys, and even those that, although equal in price to gold, are not.

It's not about color, it's about impurities

Contrary to the established opinion, the gold content in the jewelry can not be determined by its color, even approximately. In the USSR, there was a practice according to which jewelry from a precious alloy of the same sample had the same shade, but at the present moment identical products in the content of the title metals can have completely different colors. It is due to the fact that the color of the earring or ring is determined by the ligature - impurities, which are added in order to make the decoration more usable.

Pure gold (the so-called 1000-th test, is almost never found in nature, and its production technology is extremely complex, so more often this means metal of the 999th test) is very soft and deformed even with little mechanical impact. However, due to the addition of the alloy during melting (it can vary in composition and therefore gives different colors to jewelry), ornaments made from precious metals become harder and retain their shape much better.

Domestic samples

In Russia and in most European countries, along with karatnoy, a trial system is used to estimate the share of gold in the metal part of the jewelry. So, for example, the 585th test means that the title metal in this product is slightly more than half - 58.5%. Such an ornament is more weakly susceptible to mechanical action and deformation, but is also valued below.

Products made of gold, having a sample below 375 (the minimum accepted in Russia for jewelry) go into the category of jewelry, filling the niche of its upper price range. In addition to the 375th and 585th in Russia, samples of 500, 583, 750, 958, 996 and 999.9 have also been taken. In connection with the technological complexity of purifying gold from impurities, the most pure alloy is often referred to as the 990th breakdown, but often in such a precious metal product may be somewhat larger than indicated on the sample.

As we see, the 875th mark in the list does not occur, but does this mean that the ring decorating the 875 automatically makes it a counterfeit commodity? Let's understand.

On the product is a sample of 875 - what is it? A fake or just a non-standard alloy?

In order not to run into a jewelry with a bad history, it is better not to be tempted by low prices in pawnshops, but to go to a famous jewelry salon or an online store that cares about its reputation. But we will not go into such details. Suppose you have a jewelry in your hand, on which it is noted that it is made of 875 gold. We understand everything in detail.

Armed with a magnifying glass and carefully consider the sample. If it is blurry or not clearly printed, it is better not to pay attention to such goods. If the quality of sealing does not cause doubts, proceed to the next step - ask the seller for documents on the jewelry and carefully study them. The fact that the product can be made of silver, and gold (or similar to it, not once a precious material) can only be the top coating. The silver used in jewelry production may well be a sample of 875 - the price per gram of such a product must be appropriate. If you are satisfied with such a breakdown at the declared cost, you can get your wallet, if not - we go further.

Overseas guest

In the countries of the Arab world and the Persian Gulf, on the other hand, the most popular gold products are those produced from high grade precious metals. It is quite possible to buy a brooch from 990 gold there if it is possible to avoid a heart attack in the process of ascertaining the price. To find out in the potential property of a foreign visitor, we continue to study a piece of jewelry with a sample of 875. What is it? Instead of the figure "875" is "21K"! Without panic, gentlemen, the point is that the system of assessing the purity of precious alloys adopted in our country is not the only one. In addition, there is a so-called carat system - in it, the gold of the 1000th test is called 24-carat. By simple arithmetic calculations, we learn that a 21-carat alloy (which is what this brand stands for) is a gold of 875 tests - the price will be appropriate, but the extreme cheapness should alert - abroad, fake jewelry is also engaged.

And if it happens in Russia?

You buy jewelry in the territory of the Russian Federation, in a domestic store, but there is no sample 875 on the product. What is it? And then without panic - modern legislation allows for the absence of a stamp with a breakdown on the domestic scale in the event that the mark of another system of calculation on the product is well read. In addition to the inscription "21K" on the decoration, it can be indicated, for example, that there are 84 precious metal spools in it - in this system the 1000th test corresponds to 96 goldsmiths, so the product with such characteristics is also seven-eighths of pure gold.

To the question of cost

You looked at the price of gold on the stock exchange, and in the store it is lower, although it is written that the sample is 875. What is this? A fake? And then without panic - in the vast majority of cases, the price of precious metals, which can easily find out the average Internet user - is the cost of one gram of pure (that is, 1000th test) gold. At the time of writing, it was 1413.08 rubles. Per gram. This means that if an 875 sample is on the product, the price per gram should be at least seven-eighth of that amount. But there is still a payment for the work of the jeweler, and taxes, and the seller himself must also get something. Consider all this, and then the risk of running into a counterfeit will be much lower: gold is too expensive metal, products from it simply can not be sold for a song.