The practice of storing gold in homes is quite old. People see it as a property because the price of gold also increases with time. In difficult times, you can arrange money by selling it. However, with time, various latest designs of gold have come up. In such a situation, the designs of old jewellery do not suit women. Many times people sell old gold jewellery and get new design jewellery made or sell old jewellery when they need money.

The biggest problem in old jewellery is hallmarking. Earlier, hallmarking was not done on gold. In such a situation, when you sold it, the jeweller used to cheat the customer a lot. But now if you want to sell old jewellery without hallmarking, then you will first get it hallmarked. This will let you know how many carats your gold is and you will be able to make an accurate deal while selling it.

What is hallmarking

The government has made 6-digit Hallmark Unique Identification (HUID) number mandatory for buying and selling gold from April 1, 2023. Gold hallmarking is a proof of the purity of gold. BIS does the work of testing the purity of gold in the country. Hallmarked jewelry has a hallmark with a triangular mark of BIS.

How to get old gold hallmarked

If you want to get old jewelry hallmarked, then this work can be done very easily. For this, you have to go to the BIS website and first find out the BIS center in your city, where the carat measuring machine is installed. This machine checks the gold on three layers and then tells the purity of gold in carats. After this, gold is hallmarked by BIS. The hallmarking charge on old jewelry is Rs 45 per jewelry.

Whenever you leave home to buy or sell gold, check the gold prices of your city. Gold prices vary according to carat. This will make it easier for you to buy and sell gold and you will be able to do this work wisely. Let us tell you that 916 is written on 22-carat gold, 750 on 18-carat gold, and 585 on 14-carat gold, by looking at these numbers you can identify the carat of gold. 22 carat gold contains 91.66 percent gold, 18 carat contains 75 percent and 14 carat contains 58.3 percent gold. Gold jewelry is prepared by mixing other metals with it.

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