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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 October 2000, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Lowest closing price since 22 September 2000
Gold closed at $273.10 per troy ounce on 2 October 2000, down $0.500 (0.18%) from the previous close of $273.60.
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.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This close sat 1.90% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2000-09-27.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $273.10 per troy ounce on 2 October 2000. That is $0.50 lower than the previous close of $273.60, a move of -0.18%.
The gold price fell on 2 October 2000, losing $0.50 (0.18%) against the previous session's close of $273.60.
At $273.10 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $8.78 on 2 October 2000. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 2 October 2000 18k gold was worth about $6.59 per gram and 14k about $5.12 per gram, against $8.78 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 55.7 on 2 October 2000, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 55.7 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 1.90% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2000-09-27.