Silver price today
Silver knows no carat but alloys. The stamp in your item indicates how many thousandths of pure silver it contains.
- Per kilo
- €1,622
- Today
- +1.03%
- Highest fineness
- €1.62/g
What do we pay for silver?
| Alloy | Hallmark | Purity | Per gram | Per 10 grams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zilver 999 | 999 | 99.9% | €1.62 | €16.21 |
| Zilver 925 | 925 | 92.5% | €1.50 | €15.01 |
| Zilver 900 | 900 | 90% | €1.46 | €14.60 |
| Zilver 835 | 835 | 83.5% | €1.35 | €13.55 |
| Zilver 833 | 833 | 83.3% | €1.35 | €13.51 |
| Zilver 800 | 800 | 80% | €1.30 | €12.98 |
Material value based on the current silver rate of €1.62 per gram, updated every minute. Prices are indicative; we establish the definitive purity at the counter.
What do we pay for silver?
We settle silver per alloy, from 800 to 999. The table on this page shows what one gram of each fineness yields at the rate of this moment; the higher the fineness, the larger the share of pure silver and the higher the amount per gram.
The rate underneath is the same for every fineness. What differs is only how much of your gram is actually silver: 999 leaves virtually everything, 925 a little over nine tenths, 800 exactly four fifths.
How do you read the alloy of your silver?
Silver knows no carat. The fineness is expressed in thousandths: a stamp 925 means 925 parts pure silver per 1000 parts of alloy. The rest usually consists of copper, which makes the metal harder.
If there is no stamp in it, we establish the fineness with an analysis. That happens in your presence, at the table, before any amount is worked out.
What you see here is the pure material value. Rate times fineness times weight, with nothing deducted. We calculate with the world market rate of this moment, converted at the euro rate of that same moment, and refresh every minute.
What moves the silver rate
Silver is half investment, half raw material. A large part of annual demand comes from industry: electronics, solar panels, contacts and medical applications. As a result the rate moves not only with investors, but also with the economic cycle and with the building of solar parks.
That double role makes silver more volatile than gold. In percentage terms the swings are generally larger, in both directions. Anyone hoping to sell at a favourable moment notices that sooner with silver than with gold.
Traders often look at the ratio between the gold price and the silver price, the gold-silver ratio. It says nothing about what your piece yields today, but it does explain why silver sometimes lags behind while gold rises.
Would you like to work it out yourself? Use the calculator or book a free valuation.
More about silver
- silver rate todayThe world market rate these prices follow, with the day’s course.View
- Selling silver barsPrice per weight, from 1 gram to a kilo.View
- Calculate your payoutEnter fineness and weight, see the amount straight away.View
- Recognising hallmarksWhere to find the fineness and what the figures mean.View
Questions about the silver price
How often is the silver price on this page updated?
Every minute. We fetch the spot rate for silver and the euro exchange rate from the world market and pass them straight through to every alloy in the table. The time of the last update is shown beside the chart, so you can always see how fresh the figure is.
Why is your purchase price lower than the spot price?
Between your cutlery or jewellery and a tradeable bar sit melting, refining and assaying, and those costs sit in our margin. We show that margin openly, per fineness, so that you can see what happens between the spot price and the purchase price. The spot price itself applies only to pure, certified metal.
What do the numbers 800, 835, 925 and 999 mean?
They give the fineness in thousandths: 925 means 925 parts pure silver per 1000 parts of alloy. 999 is fine silver, 925 is sterling, 835 the old German standard and 800 the lowest fineness you regularly come across. The rest of the alloy is usually copper.
Do I get the same price at a branch as on the website?
Yes, the price you see here is the same price you get at all 45 of our locations. At the table we only still establish the weight and the fineness of your pieces. For the fineness we measure, the price per gram shown on this site is what applies.
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