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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 18 March 2013, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 26 February 2013
Gold closed at $1,604.60 per troy ounce on 18 March 2013, up $12.10 (0.76%) from the previous close of $1,592.50.
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 15.04% 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 $1,655.50, making this a -3.07% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $1,604.60 per troy ounce on 18 March 2013. That is $12.10 higher than the previous close of $1,592.50, a move of 0.76%.
The gold price rose on 18 March 2013, gaining $12.10 (0.76%) against the previous session's close of $1,592.50.
At $1,604.60 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $51.59 on 18 March 2013. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 18 March 2013 18k gold was worth about $38.69 per gram and 14k about $30.09 per gram, against $51.59 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 55.6 on 18 March 2013, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 55.6 ounces of silver.
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 15.04% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-08-22.