This page is a historical record of the gold price in 20 September 2001, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Gold closed at $289.00 per troy ounce on 20 September 2001, down $2.500 (0.86%) from the previous close of $291.50.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $269.00, making this a +7.43% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $289.00 per troy ounce on 20 September 2001. That is $2.50 lower than the previous close of $291.50, a move of -0.86%.
The gold price fell on 20 September 2001, losing $2.50 (0.86%) against the previous session's close of $291.50.
At $289.00 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $9.29 on 20 September 2001. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 20 September 2001 18k gold was worth about $6.97 per gram and 14k about $5.42 per gram, against $9.29 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 64.1 on 20 September 2001, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 64.1 ounces of silver.
A week before 20 September 2001, gold was around $271.60 per troy ounce, so the close of $289.00 is a gain of 6.4% over the week.
It closed 0.86% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2001-09-19.