Philharmonic 1 oz or Philharmonic 1/2 oz: which is the better buy today?
Philharmonic 1 oz holds 31.10 g of fine gold and Philharmonic 1/2 oz 15.55 g — close enough to be the same purchase in metal, and far enough apart in everything else not to be the same coin to own.
| coin | Philharmonic 1 oz | Philharmonic 1/2 oz |
|---|---|---|
| fine gold | 31.10 g | 15.55 g |
| gross weight | 31.10 g | 15.55 g |
| purity | 999.9 ‰ · 24 kt | 999.9 ‰ · 24 kt |
| diameter | 37 mm | 28 mm |
| thickness | 2.00 mm | 1.60 mm |
| face value | 100 euro | 50 euro |
| struck | Austria · since 1989 | Austria · since 1994 |
The prices come from the feed, and the feed has not answered yet.
Philharmonic 1 oz — Europe’s own one-ounce coin, and the only one with a euro face value. Wide and thin: 37 mm across for the same ounce of gold.
Philharmonic 1/2 oz — Half an ounce of pure gold with a fifty-euro face value, and the Philharmonic’s way with proportions: 28 mm across and 1.6 mm thin, the widest half-ounce coin on this site.
Both are struck in 999.9 ‰ · 24 kt: the same alloy, the same feel in the hand, and any difference on the scale is a difference in gold.
Both are modern bullion coins, struck for investors — Philharmonic 1 oz since 1989, Philharmonic 1/2 oz since 1994 — and priced on their metal and the margins above it.
So the comparison is the premium. Whichever of the two a dealer asks less for above its metal is the cheaper gold that day — and that changes shop by shop and day by day, which is what the numbers above are for.