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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 17 August 2010, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 30 June 2010
Gold closed at $1,226.60 per troy ounce on 17 August 2010, up $2.100 (0.17%) from the previous close of $1,224.50.
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 2.43% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2010-06-18.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $934.30, making this a +31.29% move year on year.
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Gold closed at $1,226.60 per troy ounce on 17 August 2010. That is $2.10 higher than the previous close of $1,224.50, a move of 0.17%.
The gold price rose on 17 August 2010, gaining $2.10 (0.17%) against the previous session's close of $1,224.50.
At $1,226.60 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $39.44 on 17 August 2010. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 17 August 2010 18k gold was worth about $29.58 per gram and 14k about $23.00 per gram, against $39.44 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 66.0 on 17 August 2010, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 66.0 ounces of silver.
A week before 17 August 2010, gold was around $1,196.20 per troy ounce, so the close of $1,226.60 is a gain of 2.5% over the week.
A year before 17 August 2010, gold was around $934.30 per troy ounce. The close of $1,226.60 therefore represents a rise of 31.3% over twelve months.
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 2.43% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2010-06-18.