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No earlier session that month closed above this level.
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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 13 August 2001, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 26 June 2001
Gold closed at $275.70 per troy ounce on 13 August 2001, up $1.800 (0.66%) from the previous close of $273.90.
This close extended a run of 5 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 4.07% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2001-05-18.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
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Gold closed at $275.70 per troy ounce on 13 August 2001. That is $1.80 higher than the previous close of $273.90, a move of 0.66%.
The gold price rose on 13 August 2001, gaining $1.80 (0.66%) against the previous session's close of $273.90.
At $275.70 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $8.86 on 13 August 2001. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 13 August 2001 18k gold was worth about $6.65 per gram and 14k about $5.17 per gram, against $8.86 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 66.7 on 13 August 2001, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 66.7 ounces of silver.
A week before 13 August 2001, gold was around $267.10 per troy ounce, so the close of $275.70 is a gain of 3.2% over the week.
This close was session 5 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 4.07% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2001-05-18.