YEREVAN, July 11. /ARKA/. The State Depository of Precious Stones and Metals Agency, an affiliation of Armenian Finance Ministry, set new prices for government agencies to buy and sell precious stones and metals which were effective from July 3 to 9, 2017. The new prices were for one gram of chemically pure metals.

The gold was to be bought at 17, 707.82 drams (down 0.23% or 41.24 drams from the previous week) and sold at 19,292.46 (down 44.8 drams); silver was to be bought at 236.49 drams (up 0.92 drams) and sold at 257.05 drams (up 1 dram); platinum was to be bought at 13,057.63 drams (down 81.8 drams) and sold at 14,193.08 drams (down 88.91 drams) and palladium was to be bought at 12,169.15 drams (down 302.93 drams) and sold at 13,227.34 drams (down 329.27 drams). ($1- 479.53 drams). --0---