Gold Bars, Biscuits and Coins in Dubai: Sizes, Prices and Where to Buy

A gold biscuit is simply a small gold bar. In Dubai, gold bars and coins of investment gold are sold at the dealer's own price: the value of the gold plus a premium for the bar or coin. They carry no VAT when the gold is 99% pure or more. UAE retail bars run from 1 gram to 10 tola, cast bars go up to 1 kilogram, and bullion coins come in ounce and gram sizes. This guide shows the standard sizes and purities, what the gold in each size is worth at today's rate, and what to check before you buy or sell one.

0% VAT

on investment gold of 99% purity or more

1 g to 10 tola

the range of UAE retail bars, as LBMA describes it

995.0

minimum fineness of a London Good Delivery bar

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Dubai gold buyers we read take back bars and coins

Bar, biscuit or coin: what the words mean

Gold bar

A piece of refined gold made to a set weight, with the refiner's stamp, the fineness and a serial number on it. That is how the London market defines the marks on a large bar, and retail bars follow the same idea.⁴ Visit Abu Dhabi notes that gold ingots in varying sizes can be bought either for investment or to be made into your own design.¹¹

Gold biscuit

A name buyers use for a small bar. It is not a separate product: none of the refiner or dealer pages we read for this guide uses the word, they all say bar.¹²¹³¹⁴ A "10 gram biscuit" is a 10 gram bar.

Minted bar

A thin, stamped bar, usually sold sealed in a card. One UAE refiner lists its minted bars from 1 gram to 100 grams.¹²

Cast bar

A bar poured into a mould. The same refiner lists 100 g, 250 g, 500 g, 1 kg and 10 tola bars as cast bars.¹²

Bullion coin

A coin sold for its gold content. DMCC's UAE Bullion Coins are gold of 9999 purity (24 carat).⁷

Gold bar sizes and fineness

Fineness is the gold content in parts per thousand: 999.9 means 99.99% gold. The Dubai Jewellery Group (DJG) puts 24 karat at 1000 parts out of 1000, so 24K, 999.9 and 995.0 all describe gold above 99%, but not the same amount of it.²

In its report on the UAE market, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) wrote that small minted and cast bars dominate retail investment, with sizes from 1 gram to 10 tola.⁵ The product lists of two UAE refiners, Emirates Gold and Al Etihad Gold, fill in the detail:

Type	Sizes listed	Fineness listed
Minted bars	1 g, 2.5 g, 5 g, 10 g, 1 tola, 1/2 ounce, 20 g, 1 ounce, 50 g, 5 tola, 100 g12	Not stated on the product pages; the refiner says its bars are refined up to 999.912
Larger bars	100 g, 250 g, 500 g, 1 kg1213	995.0, 999.0 or 999.9, depending on the bar1213
10 tola bars	10 tola1213	999.0, or 999.0 and 999.9 at the second refiner1213
UAE Bullion Coins (DMCC)	1 oz, 1/2 oz, 1/4 oz, 1/10 oz for the first design7	99997
London Good Delivery bar	350 to 430 fine troy ounces, about 10.9 to 13.4 kg4	At least 995.04

The large London bar is a wholesale product: LBMA's rules make it the bar for settling trades in the London market, not a shop item.⁴ The UAE has its own standard, UAE Good Delivery (UAEGD), which covers the quality and technical specifications of UAE refineries and is run by a committee chaired by the Ministry of Economy.⁶ Its website, as we read it, does not list bar sizes. One UAEGD-accredited refiner describes it as the standard for 1 kg bars of at least 995 fineness.¹³

How much does a gold bar weigh in ounces?

A gram is 0.032 150 75 troy ounce, so a 1 kg bar holds about 32.15 troy ounces and a 100 g bar about 3.22.¹⁸ A 10 tola bar is about 3.75 troy ounces. Our guide to the troy ounce and its price has the full conversion.

10 tola (TT) bars

The tola is a South Asian weight that UAE refiners still use for bars: 1 tola, 5 tola and 10 tola sizes appear on their lists.¹² The 10 tola bar is the one many buyers search for as a "TT bar", short for ten tola. India's Income Tax Department gives the conversion as 10 grams = 0.857 tola and 1 kilogram = 85.734 tolas, which puts 1 tola at about 11.664 grams.⁸ Our tables use 11.6638 g, so a 10 tola bar is 116.638 g. LBMA gives the same size as approximately 117 g.⁵

Gold biscuit and gold bar price in Dubai today

DJG publishes one suggested retail price per gram for each karat every day, based on the international gold price converted into dirhams.¹¹⁷ Multiplying the bar's weight by the 24K figure gives the value of the gold in it. Here is that value for the common sizes at today's rate:

Weight	24K, AED
1 g	468.00
2.5 g	1,170.00
5 g	2,340.00
10 g	4,680.00
1 tola 11.6638 g	5,458.66
20 g	9,360.00
1 troy ounce 31.1035 g	14,556.44
50 g	23,400.00
100 g	46,800.00
10 tola 116.638 g	54,586.58

The table is the value of the metal, not a dealer's price. The DJG figure is a suggested retail price for gold jewellery, quoted for 24K gold, while a 995.0 bar holds a little less gold per gram than a 999.9 bar.¹² A dealer sets its own price for each bar.

The premium over the rate

No authority publishes bar premiums, and none of the refiners we read publishes one. What a dealer's price list shows is the result. On 14 November 2026 we read the online price list of one DMCC-registered Dubai bullion dealer and divided each gold bar and coin price by its weight:¹⁴

• All six gold items on the list, five bars in three sizes and one coin, cost more per gram than DJG's 24K rate of the same day.
• Per gram, its 1 g bars cost more than its 50 g and 100 g bars.
• Its three 1 g bars, from three different makers (PAMP, Valcambi and Argor-Heraeus), had three different prices.

That is one dealer on one day, not a market average. It shows why you should compare bars by price per gram, size for size and maker for maker. The gold bar price by weight page values sizes from 1 gram to 1 kilogram.

Gold coins in the UAE: ounce and gram sizes

DMCC's UAE Bullion Coins come in four designs. The first, with a portrait of the late Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and the Burj Khalifa, is sold in 1 oz, 1/2 oz, 1/4 oz and 1/10 oz.⁷ One UAE refiner also lists gold coins by gram weight: 2.5 g, 5 g, 10 g and 20 g, next to 1/2 ounce and 1 ounce coins.¹² Dubai bullion dealers sell foreign bullion coins too, such as the Britannia, the Maple Leaf, the Eagle and the Philharmonic.¹⁴

Not every gold coin is investment gold. The same refiner lists a 4 g coin in 22K gold, which is 22 parts gold out of 24, about 91.7%.¹²² That is below the 99% purity test for the VAT zero rate described below, so ask the dealer how VAT is charged on such a coin.

VAT on gold bars and coins

Under Article 36 of the VAT Executive Regulation, the supply or import of investment precious metals is zero-rated. Gold counts as an investment precious metal when it has a purity of 99% or more and is in a form tradeable in global bullion markets.⁹ Bars of 995.0, 999.0 and 999.9 and coins of 9999 are all above 99%. Jewellery is charged the standard rate of 5%.¹⁰ Our guide to VAT on gold in the UAE covers jewellery, tourist refunds and traders.

Selling a bar or coin back

Bars and coins are the easiest gold to sell. All eight Dubai gold buyers whose terms we read on 13 November 2026 buy them, and two of them list only bullion among what they buy.¹⁶ Two bullion dealers explain how they price a buyback:

• One pays the live international spot price converted into dirhams, minus a small handling margin, and fixes the price at the time of the deal.¹⁴
• Another bases its price on the live market rate of the day and the verified weight and purity, confirms it after inspection, and accepts bullion from any recognised source or refinery that passes its checks.¹⁵

DJG lists buy-back programmes among the retailer terms that affect what you pay, so ask about the buy-back price before you buy.² The difference between the selling price and the buy-back price on the same day is what buying and selling the bar costs you. The full process is in our guide to selling gold in Dubai.

Where to buy gold bars and coins in Dubai

Bars and bullion coins are sold by bullion dealers and by jewellers that stock investment gold. Our list of sellers of gold bars and coins gives addresses and phone numbers across the UAE, and the Gold Souk shops are a short walk from each other. DJG notes that under anti-money laundering rules, buyers of jewellery may be asked for a copy of an Emirates ID or a passport, so bring one.³

Before you pay

• The weight in grams and the fineness stamped on the bar, the same on the invoice.
• The refiner's name and the serial number, and whether the bar comes sealed with a certificate. One UAE refiner lets you check a bar's certificate number on its website.¹²
• The price per gram of this bar, to compare with other sizes and dealers on the same day.
• The dealer's buy-back terms, and what happens to them if the seal is opened.
• VAT at 0% on the invoice, with the dealer's name and stamp.