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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 May 2002, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Gold closed at $308.30 per troy ounce on 2 May 2002, down $0.600 (0.19%) from the previous close of $308.90.
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.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This close sat 1.06% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2002-04-26.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $265.40, making this a +16.16% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $308.30 per troy ounce on 2 May 2002. That is $0.60 lower than the previous close of $308.90, a move of -0.19%.
The gold price fell on 2 May 2002, losing $0.60 (0.19%) against the previous session's close of $308.90.
At $308.30 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $9.91 on 2 May 2002. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 2 May 2002 18k gold was worth about $7.43 per gram and 14k about $5.78 per gram, against $9.91 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 67.9 on 2 May 2002, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 67.9 ounces of silver.
A year before 2 May 2002, gold was around $265.40 per troy ounce. The close of $308.30 therefore represents a rise of 16.2% over twelve months.
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 1.06% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2002-04-26.