
The overall variety of hallmarked items climbed 46.8% to 863,843 in December 2021, up from 588,575 for a similar interval in 2020.Based on the Birmingham Assay Workplace, gold went up 26.5% to 370,853 in December, in opposition to final 12 months’s 293,269.
Silver noticed the most important improve in hallmarked items, leaping 69.4% year-on-year.
Whereas the 466,124 hallmarked silver items in December 2021 represented the most important quantity of hallmarked items, platinum adopted in second with a rise of 32.9% to 26,668.
In the meantime palladium elevated 31.1% from 151 to 198.
The mixed figures for the 12 months noticed a rise of 47.8% from 5,877,163 to eight,687,091 from 2020.