- Highest fineness: 999.9/1,000 fine
- Swiss manufacturer: founded in 1961
- Authenticity verified: with serial number
- Highest finenessChecked for fineness by assayer and smelter
- Swiss manufacturerToday one of the world's leading refineries
- Authenticity verifiedAll details also appear on the enclosed certificate
- Highest fineness: 999.9/1,000 fine
- Swiss manufacturer: founded in 1961
- Authenticity verified: with serial number
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Valcambi · Minted bar
Five grams.One millimetre thin.
At 23.05 mm, it is almost as long as a one-euro coin is wide. The front bears the weight, fineness and number, and the back “valcambi suisse”.
- Weight
- 5 g
- Fineness
- 999.9/1,000
- Size
- 13.85 × 23.05 mm
At 23.05 mm, it is almost as long as a one-euro coin is wide. The front bears the weight, fineness and number, and the back “valcambi suisse”.
- Weight
- 5 g
- Fineness
- 999.9/1,000
- Size
- 13.85 × 23.05 mm
In detail
What the bar says.
The diamond at the top, weight and fineness below it, the assayer mark and the serial number at the bottom.
Two sides
Weight on the front. Name on the back.
Valcambi cuts its minted bars from rolled gold sheets and makes them in the same facility as its coins. The front bears the weight and fineness, and the back “valcambi suisse”.
The card
The card for the bar.
The orange card frames the bar. On its back are the serial number at the top and, at the bottom, ASSAY CERTIFICATE with the fineness, weight and the note “Certified assayer”. The number on the card is the same as on the bar.
To the same scale
Eight sizes. One strike.
The minted bars from 1 g to 100 g side by side, to the same scale. Each one leads to its own page.
1 g8.5 ×
15 mm
2.5 g11.5 ×
19 mm
5 g13.85 ×
23.05 mmthis page
10 g15.2 ×
25.3 mm
20 g18 ×
31 mm
1 ounce22 ×
38 mm
50 g27 ×
47 mm
100 g27 ×
47 mm
Precision you can see.
Fine gold from Valcambi in Balerna, Ticino, crisply struck and numbered.
5g Gold Bar Valcambi: minted fine gold from Switzerland in a small, flexible denomination
- Investment goal: Even a small gold bar helps to ensure that inflation does not quietly eat away at your savings.
- Preserving value: Gold preserves purchasing power over generations and thus secures the real value of your wealth.
- Protection: Persistent inflation, a weakening economy and growing national debt put savings under pressure; this bar adds an easy-to-handle unit to your crisis protection.
- Crisis protection: Small bars like this one are well suited as a means of exchange in difficult times, because their value remains manageable.
- Quality: Swiss minting, fineness 999.9/1,000
Small in format, but made of pure fine gold: the 5g Gold Bar Valcambi is suitable for investors who want to build up their provision in manageable units and remain flexible in an emergency. As a building block for your inflation hedge, it can be combined with further bars, exactly as it suits your plans.
A small unit for exchange in uncertain times
If a currency becomes unstable, confidence in paper money often dwindles quickly. An asset then comes to the fore that does without the promise of a central bank and can be used worldwide as a means of exchange. A small denomination is particularly suitable for this purpose: with a 5g bar, you do not have to commit a large amount at once if you only need part of your reserve. Several such units make your provision finely adjustable.
A Swiss manufacturer based in Balerna
Valcambi was founded in 1961 and is based in Balerna in the canton of Ticino. The refinery is one of the major manufacturers of gold bars and is recognised by the LBMA, the industry association of the London precious metals market. The reverse of the bar bears the name VALCAMBI in capital letters, below it the word suisse as a reference to its Swiss origin. For you, this means: behind the small bar stands a manufacturer whose name is familiar internationally in the precious metals trade.
Assayer and melter: the inscription on the front
The front shows a stamped square with rounded corners, below it the weight and fineness as well as the inscription ESSAYEUR FONDEUR. The two French words mean assayer and melter: with them, the manufacturer vouches for the fine gold content that it has checked itself. An individual serial number makes the bar unmistakable, and the enclosed certificate of authenticity repeats these details.
Why people have trusted gold since antiquity
As one of the oldest means of payment, gold has accompanied humanity through many eras. In ancient Egypt it already served as a standard in trade, and later it facilitated the exchange of goods along the Silk Road. The reason for this long history is simple: the metal is scarce, durable and sought after everywhere. To this day, fine gold can be traded worldwide and exchanged for cash if needed.
Four reasons to include small bars in your provision
- Flexibility: With 5 g fine weight, you only commit as much value as you actually need when the time comes.
- Swiss origin: minted by Valcambi in Switzerland, supplied as new
- Documentation: individual serial number and certificate of authenticity
- Tax advantage: exempt from VAT as investment gold
The smaller the unit, the more precisely provision can be matched to the moment in which it is needed.
Add a small, versatile unit of Swiss fine gold to your provision with the 5g Gold Bar Valcambi.
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