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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 22 March 2017, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 28 February 2017
Gold closed at $1,249.30 per troy ounce on 22 March 2017, up $3.200 (0.26%) from the previous close of $1,246.10.
This close extended a run of 5 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 33.85% 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 $1,248.20, making this a +0.09% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $1,249.30 per troy ounce on 22 March 2017. That is $3.20 higher than the previous close of $1,246.10, a move of 0.26%.
The gold price rose on 22 March 2017, gaining $3.20 (0.26%) against the previous session's close of $1,246.10.
At $1,249.30 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $40.17 on 22 March 2017. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 22 March 2017 18k gold was worth about $30.12 per gram and 14k about $23.43 per gram, against $40.17 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 71.2 on 22 March 2017, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 71.2 ounces of silver.
A week before 22 March 2017, gold was around $1,200.10 per troy ounce, so the close of $1,249.30 is a gain of 4.1% over the week.
This close was session 5 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 33.85% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-08-22.