Gold price per tola in pounds
A tola is a traditional South Asian unit for gold, and in the trade it is taken as 180 grains, which is 11.6638 grams. It has no definition in British law, unlike the troy ounce and the grain, so this calculator treats it as a convention: it starts at 11.6638 g and lets you change the weight if your jeweller uses a different figure, such as a rounded 11.66 g. Choose 22ct, 21ct or 24ct, type the number of tolas, and the calculator converts to grams and gives the metal value in pounds at the spot price read from gold-api.com, with the time of that price shown. It is meant for families in Britain who think in tolas because that is how wedding gold was weighed and bought. Gold by Carat is an independent site, not a gold buyer or a dealer.
Example: 1 tola of 22ct gold
£1,065
11.664 g with 916 parts of gold in 1,000
| Grams | 11.664 |
| Troy ounces | 0.3750 |
| Tolas (11.6638 g) | 1.0000 |
| Grains | 180.0 |
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Gold price per tola for 22ct, 21ct and 24ct
| Tolas | Grams | 22ct | 21ct | 24ct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 tola | 11.66 g | £1,065 | £1,017 | £1,161 |
| 2 tola | 23.33 g | £2,130 | £2,033 | £2,322 |
| 5 tola | 58.32 g | £5,325 | £5,084 | £5,804 |
| 10 tola | 116.64 g | £10,651 | £10,167 | £11,608 |
| 20 tola | 233.28 g | £21,301 | £20,335 | £23,216 |
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Where the tola weight comes from
The grain is a legal unit in the UK: UK weights law defines it as 1/7,000 of a pound, 0.06479891 g. The tola of 180 grains is a South Asian trade convention built on it, and it is the figure most bullion and jewellery dealers use. We found no British text that defines the tola, so we do not present it as official. If a jeweller works with a different tola, change the weight in the calculator and every figure follows.
Using tolas when you sell
British buyers weigh in grams and quote per gram. When you know your set as “five tolas of 22ct”, convert it first: five tolas is about 58.3 g, and the metal value is in the table above. Then ask the buyer for its weight in grams and its per-gram rate, and compare both with yours. A difference in weight is the first thing to ask about; a difference in rate is the second.
Many 22ct and 21ct pieces bought abroad have no British hallmark, so the 22ct page and the 21ct page explain what a buyer will test. For a mixed set, the scrap gold calculator adds up each carat.
Value a mixed lot of scrap gold
Example: value of the gold in the whole lot
£1,121
11.25 g of pure gold across 25.00 g of items
What a buyer would pay at different percentages of that value. No law or official body publishes what buyers pay, so these are not typical rates: compare your quotes with them.
| Paid at 60% of the gold value | £672.45 |
| Paid at 70% of the gold value | £784.53 |
| Paid at 80% of the gold value | £896.60 |
| Paid at 90% of the gold value | £1,009 |