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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 2015, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 13 February 2015
Gold closed at $1,225.50 per troy ounce on 15 May 2015, up $0.100 (0.01%) from the previous close of $1,225.40.
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 35.11% 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 $1,293.50, making this a -5.26% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $1,225.50 per troy ounce on 15 May 2015. That is $0.10 higher than the previous close of $1,225.40, a move of 0.01%.
The gold price rose on 15 May 2015, gaining $0.10 (0.01%) against the previous session's close of $1,225.40.
At $1,225.50 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $39.40 on 15 May 2015. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 15 May 2015 18k gold was worth about $29.55 per gram and 14k about $22.98 per gram, against $39.40 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 69.8 on 15 May 2015, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 69.8 ounces of silver.
A week before 15 May 2015, gold was around $1,189.10 per troy ounce, so the close of $1,225.50 is a gain of 3.1% over the week.
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 35.11% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-08-22.
The most recent higher close was about 3 months earlier — 63 trading sessions before this one.