Distance from the record
This close sat 8.14% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2020-08-06.
This page is a historical record of the gold price in 17 November 2020, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Gold closed at $1,884.50 per troy ounce on 17 November 2020, down $2.800 (0.15%) from the previous close of $1,887.30.
Gold barely moved, closing within 0.15% 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 8.14% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2020-08-06.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $1,467.30, making this a +28.43% move year on year.
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Gold closed at $1,884.50 per troy ounce on 17 November 2020. That is $2.80 lower than the previous close of $1,887.30, a move of -0.15%.
The gold price fell on 17 November 2020, losing $2.80 (0.15%) against the previous session's close of $1,887.30.
At $1,884.50 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $60.59 on 17 November 2020. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 17 November 2020 18k gold was worth about $45.44 per gram and 14k about $35.34 per gram, against $60.59 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 76.5 on 17 November 2020, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 76.5 ounces of silver.
A year before 17 November 2020, gold was around $1,467.30 per troy ounce. The close of $1,884.50 therefore represents a rise of 28.4% over twelve months.
It closed 8.14% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2020-08-06.