Silver hallmarking: The government has also started the rule of hallmarking for silver jewelery like gold from September 1, 2025. However, hallmarking will not be mandatory for silver. If you want, you can demand silver with hallmark from the shopkeeper. In addition, you can also buy silver without hallmark. Under the rules of hallmarking, silver will also have a 6 -digit unique HUID code, which will make it easier to know how pure the silver you are buying. Today we will know here how to identify hallmarking on silver jewelery and other things.
How will silver hallmarking be identified
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has fixed 6 new standard 800, 835, 900, 925, 970 and 990 for silver purity. According to BIS, hallmarking on silver jewelery will include 3 important things. It will first have BIS mark and will be written with ‘Silver’. Just further, silver grade will be written such as 800, 835, 900, 925, 970 and 990. Let us tell you that this grade will be an indication of how pure the silver you are buying. Silver with 990 grade will be the pure silver. The last and third thing in Hallmarking will be a 6 -digit alphanumeric code. These codes can also be a mixture of digits, alphabets or both.
Common people will get protection from fraud
Let us tell you that the government has started the rule of hallmarking to protect the common people from the frauds being done by shopping silver. Many people complain that the silver jewelery they have bought are adulterated. Shops take pure silver money from customers and sell them jewelery made of adulterated silver. Hallmarking will make it clear how pure your silver is and how adulterated. Let us tell you that metals like copper and nickel are added to silver jewelery.
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