The week in premiums, to 24 October 2026

In euros, gold fell 3.8% over seven days. At the week’s close the premium ran from 1.1% over spot on a kilo bar to 44.4% on a one-gram bar, and comparing dealers paid most on one-gram bars of other brands.

The lowest premium and the highest

Across 141 coins and bars, the lowest typical premium at the week’s close was on the Perth Mint 1 kg bar: 1.1% over spot. The highest was on the PAMP 1 g bar, at 44.4%. That is the price of divisibility: minting, the assay card and the shop’s margin are paid per bar, and weigh far more on a gram than on a kilo.

Where comparing paid most

On 1 g bars of other brands, the cheapest dealer, Goldinvest, and the dearest, xrisos.gr, were 30.3% of the typical price apart: the widest gap in the catalogue, and so the weight on which looking at more than one shop paid best.

The shop most often on top

Svenska Guldbanken, in Sweden, was the cheapest dealer on 19 of the 141 coins and bars — more than any other shop.

Premiums are the typical (median) price over spot, from the dealers’ published prices and before shipping, across 70 dealers in 29 countries. Prices are not in this note: they are minutes old the moment anyone reads a paragraph, and they are on the map.