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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 November 2005, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Lowest closing price since 20 October 2005
Gold closed at $462.80 per troy ounce on 2 November 2005, down $2.300 (0.49%) from the previous close of $465.10.
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 3.00% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2005-10-11.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $420.00, making this a +10.19% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $462.80 per troy ounce on 2 November 2005. That is $2.30 lower than the previous close of $465.10, a move of -0.49%.
The gold price fell on 2 November 2005, losing $2.30 (0.49%) against the previous session's close of $465.10.
At $462.80 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $14.88 on 2 November 2005. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 2 November 2005 18k gold was worth about $11.16 per gram and 14k about $8.68 per gram, against $14.88 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 61.4 on 2 November 2005, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 61.4 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 3.00% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2005-10-11.