What is a gold biscuit, and is it different from a gold bar?
Same thing, different family vocabulary. "Gold biscuit" is the everyday term, especially in South Asian households, for a small minted gold bar: stamped, rectangular, usually sealed in assay packaging, in sizes from 5 grams up to 100 grams, including the traditional tola of 11.66 grams. "Gold block" is the casual name people reach for with larger cast bars, the poured kind with rougher edges. Minted biscuit, cast block, bar, ingot: a buyer prices all of them the identical way, pure gold weight times the live market, so the word on the wrapper never changes the math.
What is a gold biscuit worth today, from a 1g (1 gm) bar up, size by size?
These are the pure-gold values of each common biscuit size at this moment's market price, assuming 24K .999 fine, which nearly all biscuits are. Recognized sealed bars typically sell above these figures by a modest premium:
| Biscuit size | Gold content | Gold value right now |
|---|---|---|
| 5 gram biscuit | 0.1607 troy oz | — |
| 10 gram biscuit | 0.3215 troy oz | — |
| 1 tola biscuit (11.66 g) | 0.375 troy oz | — |
| 20 gram biscuit | 0.643 troy oz | — |
| 50 gram biscuit | 1.6075 troy oz | — |
| 100 gram biscuit (gold block) | 3.215 troy oz | — |
The same per-ounce price scales to any cast block: a kilo bar is simply 32.15 troy ounces of the number at the top of this page. For live-name-brand bars like PAMP, the PAMP Suisse guide covers how the brand itself adds premium.
How does selling a gold biscuit work, and does the packaging matter?
Keep the seal. A biscuit still sealed in its original assay card, with the serial number visible and matching, verifies fastest and holds its premium best, because the refiner's certification is doing the proving. Do not cut it open to "check" it before selling; an opened card turns a certified bar back into gold that must prove itself.
Either way, verification at our counters is free and happens in front of you: weight on a state-certified scale, then an XRF read that confirms purity without so much as scratching the bar. Sealed or loose, inherited or imported, with paperwork or without, the offer comes off the same live feed this page shows, and payment is same-day. If the family holding includes jewelry or coins alongside the biscuits, one visit prices all of it.
Where and how to buy gold biscuits
People buy gold biscuits from bullion dealers, some banks abroad, and jewelers in gold-culture markets; in the US the practical route is an established dealer selling sealed assay-card bars at a small premium over spot. We are the other side of that trade: when the time comes to sell, any biscuit, with or without its papers, is XRF verified and priced from the live feed on this page.
One biscuit or the whole family holding: weighed and XRF-verified free, in front of you, priced from the live market, paid the same day.
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How much is a 10 gram gold biscuit worth?
The live value is in the table above: 10 grams is 0.3215 troy ounces of pure gold, multiplied by this moment's market price. A recognized sealed 10 gram bar typically brings a modest premium above that melt figure.
What is a tola of gold?
A traditional South Asian unit of 11.66 grams, or 0.375 troy ounces, still a standard biscuit size from Indian and Middle Eastern refiners. Its live value is in the table above, and a tola bar sells here exactly like any other bar: weight times purity times the live price.
How much is a gold block worth?
"Gold block" usually means a larger cast bar, and the math never changes: pure gold weight times the live per-ounce price at the top of this page. A 100 gram block is 3.215 troy ounces; a kilo block is 32.15. Cast bars without assay cards simply get the free XRF verification first.
Can I sell a gold biscuit bought overseas or inherited without papers?
Yes. Foreign refiner marks, tola sizes and missing paperwork are all routine; the XRF read and certified scale establish exactly what the bar is regardless of where it came from, and the offer prices from the same live feed. The verification is free and you watch it happen.