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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 10 October 2017, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 26 September 2017
Gold closed at $1,290.60 per troy ounce on 10 October 2017, up $8.800 (0.69%) from the previous close of $1,281.80.
This close extended a run of 3 consecutive sessions of gains. Runs are more informative than any one day inside them: they show direction holding rather than a single session's noise.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This close sat 31.67% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-08-22.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $1,248.90, making this a +3.34% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $1,290.60 per troy ounce on 10 October 2017. That is $8.80 higher than the previous close of $1,281.80, a move of 0.69%.
The gold price rose on 10 October 2017, gaining $8.80 (0.69%) against the previous session's close of $1,281.80.
At $1,290.60 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $41.49 on 10 October 2017. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 10 October 2017 18k gold was worth about $31.12 per gram and 14k about $24.20 per gram, against $41.49 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 75.2 on 10 October 2017, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 75.2 ounces of silver.
This close was session 3 of a consecutive run of gains. A run is counted by closes, so an intraday reversal that still closed in the same direction does not break it.
It closed 31.67% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-08-22.