Distance from the record
This close sat 13.22% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2020-08-06.
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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 19 August 2021, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Gold closed at $1,780.20 per troy ounce on 19 August 2021, down $1.400 (0.08%) from the previous close of $1,781.60.
This close extended a run of 3 consecutive sessions of losses. Runs are more informative than any one day inside them: they show direction holding rather than a single session's noise.
This close sat 13.22% 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 $1,958.70, making this a -9.11% move year on year.
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Gold closed at $1,780.20 per troy ounce on 19 August 2021. That is $1.40 lower than the previous close of $1,781.60, a move of -0.08%.
The gold price fell on 19 August 2021, losing $1.40 (0.08%) against the previous session's close of $1,781.60.
At $1,780.20 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $57.23 on 19 August 2021. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 19 August 2021 18k gold was worth about $42.93 per gram and 14k about $33.39 per gram, against $57.23 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 76.7 on 19 August 2021, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 76.7 ounces of silver.
This close was session 3 of a consecutive run of losses. A run is counted by closes, so an intraday reversal that still closed in the same direction does not break it.
It closed 13.22% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2020-08-06.