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This close sat 31.65% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-08-22.
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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 17 January 2019, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Gold closed at $1,291.00 per troy ounce on 17 January 2019, down $0.600 (0.05%) from the previous close of $1,291.60.
Gold barely moved, closing within 0.05% 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 31.65% 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 $1,338.00, making this a -3.51% move year on year.
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Gold closed at $1,291.00 per troy ounce on 17 January 2019. That is $0.60 lower than the previous close of $1,291.60, a move of -0.05%.
The gold price fell on 17 January 2019, losing $0.60 (0.05%) against the previous session's close of $1,291.60.
At $1,291.00 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $41.51 on 17 January 2019. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 17 January 2019 18k gold was worth about $31.13 per gram and 14k about $24.21 per gram, against $41.51 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 83.5 on 17 January 2019, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 83.5 ounces of silver.
It closed 31.65% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-08-22.