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Hallmarking figures drop 4.4%
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Hallmarking figures fell by 4.4 in October, with gold taking a particular hit.
Data compiled from the four UK assay offices by the Birmingham Assay Office showed that the total number of items hallmarked during the period was 1,186,648, down from 1,240,717 last year.
Gold was down 3.5%, silver 5.5%, and palladium down 14.1%.
THE FIGURES
| Month | Month | Variance | % | |||
| Oct-14 | Oct-15 | |||||
| Gold | ||||||
| 999 | 193 | 175 | -18 | -9.3 | ||
| 990 | 2 | 17 | 15 | 750.0 | ||
| 916 | 39,623 | 47,069 | 7,446 | 18.8 | ||
| 750 | 115,580 | 97,382 | -18,198 | -15.7 | ||
| 585 | 9,054 | 11,083 | 2,029 | 22.4 | ||
| 375 | 475,464 | 461,695 | -13,769 | -2.9 | ||
| 639,916 | 617,421 | -22,495 | -3.5 | |||
| Silver | ||||||
| 999 | 2,362 | 1,553 | -809 | -34.3 | ||
| 958 | 493 | 1,528 | 1,035 | 209.9 | ||
| 925 | 564,748 | 533,416 | -31,332 | -5.5 | ||
| 800 | 45 | 39 | -6 | 100.0 | ||
| 567,648 | 536,536 | -31,112 | -5.5 | |||
| Platinum | ||||||
| 999 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 100.0 | ||
| 950 | 24,898 | 25,570 | 672 | 2.7 | ||
| 900 | 22 | 41 | 19 | 86.4 | ||
| 850 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 100.0 | ||
| 24,931 | 25,626 | 695 | 2.8 | |||
| Palladium | ||||||
| 999 | 0 | 572 | 572 | 100.0 | ||
| 950 | 6,846 | 5593 | -1,253 | -18.3 | ||
| 500 | 1,376 | 900 | -476 | -34.6 | ||
| 8,222 | 7065 | -1,157 | -14.1 | |||
| 1,240,717 | 1,186,648 | -54,069 | -4.4 |
