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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 15 May 2009, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 26 March 2009
Gold closed at $930.90 per troy ounce on 15 May 2009, up $2.900 (0.31%) from the previous close of $928.00.
This close extended a run of 4 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 7.21% 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 $879.00, making this a +5.90% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $930.90 per troy ounce on 15 May 2009. That is $2.90 higher than the previous close of $928.00, a move of 0.31%.
The gold price rose on 15 May 2009, gaining $2.90 (0.31%) against the previous session's close of $928.00.
At $930.90 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $29.93 on 15 May 2009. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 15 May 2009 18k gold was worth about $22.45 per gram and 14k about $17.46 per gram, against $29.93 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 66.5 on 15 May 2009, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 66.5 ounces of silver.
This close was session 4 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 7.21% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2008-03-18.