Gold buying price ups 1.4 percent in Armenia to 16,663.16 drams

YEREVAN, March 17. / ARKA /. The State Depository of Precious Stones and Metals Agency, an affiliation of Armenian Finance Ministry, has set new prices for government agencies to buy and sell precious stones and metals which are effective for this week.

The new prices are for one gram of chemically pure metals.

Thus, the gold is to be bought at 16,663.16 drams (+1.4%) and sold at 18,112.13 drams (+1.4%); silver is to be bought at 259.35 drams (- 1.52 drams) and sold at 281.9 drams (- 1.65 drams): platinum is to be bought at 18,078.13 drams (+ 96.21 drams) and sold at 19,650.14 drams (+104.58 drams); palladium is to be bought at 9,496.74 drams (+126.31 drams) and sold at 10,322.54 drams (+ 137.29 drams). ($1 – 414.96 drams). M.M.-0-

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