GOLD PRICING

Gold has been utilized from the beginning of time as cash and has been a relative standard for
money counterparts explicit to monetary locales or nations, until later times. Numerous
European nations actualized best quality levels in the last piece of the nineteenth century until
these were incidentally suspended in the budgetary emergencies including World War 1.2 After
World War 2, the Bretton Woods framework pegged the United States dollar to gold at a pace
of US$35 per troy ounce. The framework existed until the 1971 Nixon Shock, when the US
singularly suspended the direct convertibility of the United States dollar to gold and made the
progress to a fiat cash framework. The last money to be separated from gold was the Swiss
France in 2000.

Since 1919 the most widely recognized benchmark at the cost of gold has been the London
gold fixing, a twice-every day phone meeting of agents from five bullion- exchanging firms of
the London bullion advertise. Moreover, gold is exchanged consistently all through the world
dependent on the intra-day spot cost, got from over-the-counter gold-exchanging markets far
and wide (code "XAU"). The following table presents the gold value versus different resources
and key measurements on the premise of information taken with the recurrence of five years:

Gold Price Trends-

Classical Era 5,000 years ago in Egypt and the Middle East-

➢ Gold and other metals satisfied the traditional capacity of cash (trade, methods for
instalment, and esteem stockpiling). Anyway, gold coins were not yet broadly utilized in
monetary exchanges.

In 560 BC, Lydian king Croesus-

➢ He was the first to deliver institutionalized gold coins which were of a similar size and
worth. The stamped coins ensured, other than its promulgation work, the worth and nature
of the valuable metal.

In 225 BC, the Roman Empire used the first gold coins-

➢ This was a reaction to the depreciation of their silver cash, brought about by the oversupply
of silver coming from the new Roman provinces.

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Middle ages:

➢ Middle Ages, silver as preferred coin metal- Gold was increasingly more utilized as it were
as worth stockpiling rather than a method for' instalment, as this metal was rarer and that's
just the beginning important than silver. The campaigns and the extending long-separation
exchange served to reintroduce gold as a method for instalment. In Medieval Europe gold
had estimation of 10 to multiple times that or silver.

➢ In 1300 hallmarking-A framework to check and ensure the nature of gold was set up in
London, making a typical standard for gold immaculateness.

➢ In the fourteenth and fifteenth century increment of gold worth- The reasons were the
decrease of European mining prompting a decrease in new gold supplies. During the same
lime, coin creation diminished by 80%. This made gold available for use rarer, expanded
the cost for this valuable metal, and lead to a persistent collapse.

Early Modern Times:

➢ Discovery, subjugation and plundering of America: The commitment in the New World
carried a lot of gold to Europe during the sixteenth century. The new gold stock previously
switched emptying and later caused expansion in Spain, late in the remainder of Europe,
and even in Asia.

➢ Second half of the 16th century, gold coins further lost their value: This is since gold coins
were joined with different metals, for example, copper, and lost its immaculateness. All the
more poor-quality coins were brought into dissemination because of the Seven Years War
(1756-1763).

➢ Fixed gold-silver conversion rate and gold standard: In the United Kingdom, Sir Isaac
Newton, superintendent of the Royal Mint, decided the transformation rale of gold and
silver. This assisted with packaging the enormous variances of gold coins. In 1774 the
English Parliament presented the best quality level. Here, the qualities of the cash circular
segment controlled by the national gold stores.

➢ Bimetallism of the 18th and early 19th century: Other European nations and the US
stamped simultaneously gold and silver coins. The premise was a fixed transformation rate
between these two metals. In France, beginning in 1795, the rate was 15: I, implying that
gold has a 15 times higher worth.

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 HISTORICAL GOLD RATE TREND IN INDIA

The below chart represents the historical movement of gold prices in India. It’s important to
note that the gold prices would fluctuate during the year and the amount mentioned below is a
representation of the average price for that year.

This chart contains the average price for gold for per year since 1964. The prices indicated are
for 10 grams of gold and prices are in Indian Rupees.

Year Price Year Price

1964 Rs 63.25 1991 Rs 3466.00

1965 Rs 71.75 1992 Rs 4334.00

1966 Rs 83.75 1993 Rs 4140.00

1967 Rs 102.50 1994 Rs 4598.00

1968 Rs 162.00 1995 Rs 4680.00

1969 Rs 176.00 1996 Rs 5160.00

1970 Rs 184.00 1997 Rs 4725.00

1971 Rs 193.00 1998 Rs 4045.00

1972 Rs 202.00 1999 Rs 4234.00

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1973 Rs 278.50 2000 Rs 4400.00

1974 Rs 506.00 2001 Rs 4300.00

1975 Rs 540.00 2002 Rs 4999.00

1976 Rs 432.00 2003 Rs 5600.00

1977 Rs 486.00 2004 Rs 5850.00

1978 Rs 685.00 2005 Rs 7000.00

1979 Rs 937.00 2006 Rs 8400.00

1980 Rs 1330.00 2007 Rs 10800.00

1981 Rs 1800.00 2008 Rs 12500.00

1982 Rs 1645.00 2009 Rs 14500.00

1983 Rs 1800.00 2010 Rs 18500.00

1984 Rs 1970.00 2011 Rs 26400.00

1985 Rs 2130.00 2012 Rs 31050.00

1986 Rs 2140.00 2013 Rs 29600.00

1987 Rs 2570.00 2014 Rs 28006.50

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1988 Rs 3130.00 2015 Rs 26343.50

1989 Rs 3140.00 2016 Rs 28623.50

1990 Rs 3200.00 2017 Rs 29667.50

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