Distance from the record
This close sat 18.25% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-18.
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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 13 January 2009, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Lowest closing price since 12 December 2008
Gold closed at $820.10 per troy ounce on 13 January 2009, down $0.200 (0.02%) from the previous close of $820.30.
Gold barely moved, closing within 0.02% of the previous session. Flat days are the majority of any price series and are most useful as the baseline the notable days are measured against.
This close sat 18.25% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-18.
One of the ten lowest gold closes of that year, ranking 248 of 250 sessions.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $896.10, making this a -8.48% move year on year.
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Gold closed at $820.10 per troy ounce on 13 January 2009. That is $0.20 lower than the previous close of $820.30, a move of -0.02%.
The gold price fell on 13 January 2009, losing $0.20 (0.02%) against the previous session's close of $820.30.
At $820.10 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $26.37 on 13 January 2009. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 13 January 2009 18k gold was worth about $19.78 per gram and 14k about $15.38 per gram, against $26.37 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 77.0 on 13 January 2009, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 77.0 ounces of silver.
A week before 13 January 2009, gold was around $865.40 per troy ounce, so the close of $820.10 is a loss of 5.2% over the week.
It closed 18.25% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2008-03-18.