Highest so far that month
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 2 June 2009, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 23 February 2009
Gold closed at $983.20 per troy ounce on 2 June 2009, up $4.400 (0.45%) from the previous close of $978.80.
Notable session: highest close of the month.
This close extended a run of 4 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 1.99% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-18.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $892.90, making this a +10.11% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $983.20 per troy ounce on 2 June 2009. That is $4.40 higher than the previous close of $978.80, a move of 0.45%.
The gold price rose on 2 June 2009, gaining $4.40 (0.45%) against the previous session's close of $978.80.
At $983.20 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $31.61 on 2 June 2009. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 2 June 2009 18k gold was worth about $23.71 per gram and 14k about $18.44 per gram, against $31.61 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 61.7 on 2 June 2009, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 61.7 ounces of silver.
A week before 2 June 2009, gold was around $953.10 per troy ounce, so the close of $983.20 is a gain of 3.2% over the week.
A month before 2 June 2009, gold was around $890.70 per troy ounce, so the close of $983.20 is a gain of 10.4% over the month.
This close was session 4 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 1.99% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2008-03-18.
The most recent higher close was about 3 months earlier — 67 trading sessions before this one.