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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 13 May 2009, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 26 March 2009
Gold closed at $925.50 per troy ounce on 13 May 2009, up $2.000 (0.22%) from the previous close of $923.50.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This close sat 7.75% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-18.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $868.50, making this a +6.56% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $925.50 per troy ounce on 13 May 2009. That is $2.00 higher than the previous close of $923.50, a move of 0.22%.
The gold price rose on 13 May 2009, gaining $2.00 (0.22%) against the previous session's close of $923.50.
At $925.50 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $29.76 on 13 May 2009. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 13 May 2009 18k gold was worth about $22.32 per gram and 14k about $17.36 per gram, against $29.76 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 66.1 on 13 May 2009, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 66.1 ounces of silver.
It closed 7.75% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2008-03-18.