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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 21 July 2017, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 23 June 2017
Gold closed at $1,254.30 per troy ounce on 21 July 2017, up $9.500 (0.76%) from the previous close of $1,244.80.
This close extended a run of 6 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 33.59% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-08-22.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $1,330.50, making this a -5.73% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $1,254.30 per troy ounce on 21 July 2017. That is $9.50 higher than the previous close of $1,244.80, a move of 0.76%.
The gold price rose on 21 July 2017, gaining $9.50 (0.76%) against the previous session's close of $1,244.80.
At $1,254.30 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $40.33 on 21 July 2017. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 21 July 2017 18k gold was worth about $30.25 per gram and 14k about $23.52 per gram, against $40.33 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 76.4 on 21 July 2017, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 76.4 ounces of silver.
A week before 21 July 2017, gold was around $1,226.60 per troy ounce, so the close of $1,254.30 is a gain of 2.3% over the week.
This close was session 6 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 33.59% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-08-22.