Are you using the full potential of the hallmark to help sell your jewellery?

Launching on 8 June 2023 at the National Association of Jewellers AGM, the HALO Award rewards effective online initiatives promoting the importance of hallmarking.

The award encourages all online retailers to review their hallmarking information and raise the profile of hallmarks.

Visit naj.co.uk/HALO for full details.

• The Royal Mint’s coins have been submitted for quality testing in the annual Trial of the Pyx at Goldsmiths’ Hall in the City of London – the UK’s oldest judicial process.
• As the responsibility of the Goldsmiths’ Company, whose members make up the jury, the 700-year-old Trial ensures every coin produced by The Royal Mint meets a strict set of standards aimed at protecting consumers.
• The first official UK coins bearing His Majesty King Charles III’s official effigy, along with the 15kg gold coin produced to celebrate Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee are among the nearly 10,000 coins submitted for testing.
• This is the first time that coins bearing the effigies of two monarchs has been submitted to the Trial for several decades.

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The purpose of the Goldsmiths' Company is to contribute to British national life by supporting its related crafts, industry and trade. Today, the Goldsmiths’ Company family is made up of the Goldsmiths’ Company, the Goldsmiths’ Company Assay Office, the Goldsmiths’ Company Charity, and the Goldsmiths’ Centre.

We work together and collaborate to support the trade, from training and development to investing in makers who live, work, create and learn in the UK; and to support civil society, from grant-making through the Charity to education provided by the Centre, and by upholding standards of hallmarking through the Assay Office.de and through wider charitable and educational activity.

The main objectives of the Company are:

• To support the precious metal and jewellery crafts, industry and trade through training, education and promotion, primarily through The Goldsmiths’ Centre;
• To operate the Assay Office, and test the coinage of the realm annually through the Trial of the Pyx;
• To fund and support the Goldsmiths’ Company Charity in achieving its charitable objectives;
• To build on our traditions to enhance our contribution to life, work, education and culture in the City of London and more widely;
• To manage our financial affairs to secure the long-term future of the Company and its activities.

The Goldsmiths' Centre

The Goldsmiths’ Company Assay Office is where hallmarking began, and we have been testing and hallmarking precious metals for over 700 years. 

We have been responsible for guaranteeing the purity of items made of precious metals since 1300, when the hallmarking statute was passed. We became the official ‘home of hallmarking’ in 1478, establishing the country’s first Assay Office at Goldsmiths’ Hall London, which still operates today.

Our hallmark and our trade depend on integrity and trust, which underpin all our work and what we stand for.