How much is a 1 Kilo bar worth?
Specification
| Gross weight | 1,000 g |
|---|---|
| Fineness | 999.9 (99.99%) |
| Fine gold content | 999.9 g |
| Fine gold, troy oz | 32.14753 |
About this bar
The standard wholesale unit across the Shanghai and Hong Kong exchanges, and a six-figure asset at current prices. Nearly all kilo bars are .9999 fine and carry the lowest premium of any retail form.
The dealer's brick
The kilobar is what gold looks like when professionals move it: the standard unit of the Shanghai and Hong Kong exchanges, the deliverable behind COMEX's kilo contract, the shape refiners pour when nobody needs it pretty. Most kilos are cast, not minted - poured into a mould, cooled, stamped - so each carries its own surface character, and two honest bars from the same refiner will not look identical. At four nines fine and roughly 32.15 troy ounces, it is a six-figure object at current prices, bought for the lowest per-gram premium in the retail market.
The exit is the test
Buying a kilo is easy; selling one is where the design decisions bite. You cannot sell a third of it, so the position moves in six-figure steps. Fewer counters handle them, and any serious buyer will verify - ultrasound or XRF at minimum, and cast bars from lesser-known refiners can face an assay before final payment. None of this is a defect; it is the price of the discount. A kilo suits someone consolidating serious weight through a major refiner with storage sorted. Anyone who might need to sell in pieces is better served by thirty-two separate ounces, and should read the premium difference as insurance rather than waste.
How this size compares
| Fine gold | 999.9 g |
|---|---|
| In troy ounces | 32.14753 ozt |
| In pennyweights | 642.95 dwt |
| Equal to | 136.57 gold sovereigns |
| Bars per kilo | 1 of these make one kilo of gold |
Questions people ask
- How much is a 1 Kilo bar worth today?
- Its gold content is worth $132,621 at the current spot price of $4,125.39 per troy ounce. That is the melt value - it contains 32.14753 troy ounces of fine gold. A dealer will pay under this figure when buying and charge over it when selling. A kilo is 32.15 ounces priced as one object, and that concentration is the whole story.
- How much does a 1 Kilo bar weigh?
- 1,000 grams gross at 999.9 fineness, which is 999.9 grams of actual gold. The gross weight is what your scale reads; the fine weight is what it is worth.
- How will a dealer verify my kilo bar when I sell?
- Weight and dimensions first, then usually ultrasound or XRF through the surface; recognised refiner brands with serials often stop there. A cast bar without provenance can require a fire assay, with payment following the result. Receipts and refiner packaging shorten every step of this.
- Can I sell part of a kilo bar?
- Not meaningfully - cutting a bar destroys its brand, serial and assay standing, and the pieces revert to scrap pricing. A kilo is one indivisible position. If partial exits matter to you, that alone is the argument for ounces over the kilo, whatever the premium table says.
- How current is this valuation?
- It is calculated live from the spot price, currently $4,125.39 per troy ounce from swissquote, read at 18:45 UTC. Nothing on this page is a cached daily figure.