The Umicore 1 g minted gold bar contains 1 gram of 999.9 fine gold in a compact physical format. It combines one of the smallest retail weights with the background of a large European business involved in precious-metal refining and recycling.
Who is the 1 g gold bar for?
One gram is mainly about control over very small units. Five 1 g bars and one 5 g bar contain the same nominal gold weight. Five separate bars can be handled independently, while the entire 5 g remains together in one product.
That flexibility comes with a higher premium per gram. Every 1 g bar needs its own production process, quality control and packaging.
The difference becomes clearer at larger totals. Building 20 g through 1 g bars means twenty separate products. A single 20 g bar holds the same nominal weight with far fewer physical units. The real choice is divisibility versus efficiency.
About Umicore
Umicore is a Belgian materials and precious-metals group with historical roots dating back to 1805. Its activities include refining, recycling and recovering valuable metals.
Its precious-metals operations include the Hoboken site in Belgium. Umicore’s Hoboken refinery is listed by the LBMA as a Good Delivery refiner for gold.
Packaging and certification
The 1 g minted bar measures approximately 15 × 8.5 × 0.5 mm. Umicore offers small investment bars in protective certificate packaging, keeping the bar and its identifying information together in one compact format.
How the price is determined
The price begins with the market value of 1 gram of gold. A premium is added for refining, minting, packaging, control and distribution.
Because those costs are attached to a single gram, the premium per gram is normally higher than on larger bars.
