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14ct gold price per gram
14ct gold is R1 316,59 per gram in South Africa at 11 Sept 2026, 06:13 SAST. Fourteen-carat gold is 58.5% pure, stamped 585, and it is the karat South Africans most often own without having chosen it. It is the American and Far Eastern standard rather than a local one, so most 14ct pieces here arrived as imports, gifts or inheritances. That matters when you sell, because a local buyer prices it off the same arithmetic as anything else but may test it more carefully, since it is not what they see all day.
Also written 14k gold, 14 carat gold, 585 gold · all the same purity
| Weight | Fine gold | Metal value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 g | 0.58 g | R1 317 |
| 2 g | 1.17 g | R2 633 |
| 5 g | 2.92 g | R6 583 |
| 10 g | 5.85 g | R13 166 |
| 20 g | 11.70 g | R26 332 |
| 50 g | 29.25 g | R65 830 |
14ct = 58.5% gold · any weight →
The karat South Africa did not choose
South Africa settled on 9ct as its everyday standard and 18ct as its fine-jewellery standard. Fourteen-carat sits between them and belongs to neither tradition. It is the dominant karat in the United States and common across Asia, so a 14ct piece in a South African jewellery box usually travelled to get here. None of that changes what it is worth: 58.5% of the weight is gold, and the rest is alloy.
The practical consequence is about testing rather than value. A buyer who handles 9ct all day will occasionally treat an unfamiliar 585 stamp with more suspicion than it deserves. Ask to watch the test, and remember that an unfamiliar stamp is a reason to check, never a reason to accept less than the arithmetic gives.
How this number is worked out
Every karat on this site is the pure gold price multiplied by that karat's legal purity, and nothing else. Pure gold is R2 250,58 a gram at 11 Sept 2026, 06:13 SAST, so 14ct at 58.5% comes to R1 316,59. That is an ounce at R40 951 and a kilogram at R1 316 592. You can reproduce all of it with a calculator, which is the point: see the methodology, take the numbers from our public price feed, or run any weight through the calculator.
The metal value is not the payout. A buyer pays a percentage of it, and that percentage is the only thing worth shopping around. Our study of 4 295 reviews across 34 South African gold buyers found the disputes are almost never about the advertised rate.
The Goldza Project Team
Common questions
14ct gold, answered
- Is 14ct gold real gold?
- Yes. 14ct gold is 58.5% pure gold, stamped 585, with the balance made up of other metals for hardness and colour. It is real gold by any legal definition, and it is the standard karat in the United States. It simply holds less gold per gram than 18ct and more than 9ct.
- What is 585 gold?
- 585 is the hallmark for 14ct gold: 585 parts of pure gold in every thousand, or 58.5%. If you find that number stamped inside a ring or on a clasp, you are holding 14ct.
- Is 14k the same as 14ct?
- Yes, exactly the same thing. "K" and "ct" are both abbreviations for carat, the purity scale that runs out of 24. American and Asian pieces are usually marked 14K, European and South African ones 14ct or 585. The gold content is identical.