Prices and Data guides

Every fair transaction in precious metals starts from the same reference: the spot price, set continuously on global markets and quoted per troy ounce. Everything else, dealer premiums, buyback offers, pawn quotes, melt values, is a spread around that number. Once you can read spot, convert it to grams and karats, and place today's price in context, no quote can confuse you.

These guides explain where the gold and silver prices come from, how the London reference prices and futures markets work, what moved prices over the past decades, and how to convert a quote into the value of the exact item in your hand. Start with what is the gold spot price and 30 years of gold price history, then put the numbers to work in the gold value calculator and the tools hub.