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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 19 August 2010, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 30 June 2010
Gold closed at $1,233.80 per troy ounce on 19 August 2010, up $4.100 (0.33%) from the previous close of $1,229.70.
This close extended a run of 7 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 1.86% 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 $943.30, making this a +30.80% move year on year.
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Gold closed at $1,233.80 per troy ounce on 19 August 2010. That is $4.10 higher than the previous close of $1,229.70, a move of 0.33%.
The gold price rose on 19 August 2010, gaining $4.10 (0.33%) against the previous session's close of $1,229.70.
At $1,233.80 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $39.67 on 19 August 2010. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 19 August 2010 18k gold was worth about $29.75 per gram and 14k about $23.14 per gram, against $39.67 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 67.4 on 19 August 2010, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 67.4 ounces of silver.
A year before 19 August 2010, gold was around $943.30 per troy ounce. The close of $1,233.80 therefore represents a rise of 30.8% over twelve months.
This close was session 7 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 1.86% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2010-06-18.