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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 June 2005, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 18 March 2005
Gold closed at $438.30 per troy ounce on 17 June 2005, up $2.100 (0.48%) from the previous close of $436.20.
This close extended a run of 3 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 3.88% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2004-12-03.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $388.90, making this a +12.70% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $438.30 per troy ounce on 17 June 2005. That is $2.10 higher than the previous close of $436.20, a move of 0.48%.
The gold price rose on 17 June 2005, gaining $2.10 (0.48%) against the previous session's close of $436.20.
At $438.30 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $14.09 on 17 June 2005. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 17 June 2005 18k gold was worth about $10.57 per gram and 14k about $8.22 per gram, against $14.09 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 59.8 on 17 June 2005, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 59.8 ounces of silver.
A week before 17 June 2005, gold was around $427.40 per troy ounce, so the close of $438.30 is a gain of 2.6% over the week.
A year before 17 June 2005, gold was around $388.90 per troy ounce. The close of $438.30 therefore represents a rise of 12.7% over twelve months.
This close was session 3 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 3.88% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2004-12-03.
The most recent higher close was about 3 months earlier — 61 trading sessions before this one.