This page is a historical record of the gold price in 26 October 2004, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Gold closed at $426.80 per troy ounce on 26 October 2004, down $2.200 (0.51%) from the previous close of $429.00.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $388.90, making this a +9.75% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $426.80 per troy ounce on 26 October 2004. That is $2.20 lower than the previous close of $429.00, a move of -0.51%.
The gold price fell on 26 October 2004, losing $2.20 (0.51%) against the previous session's close of $429.00.
At $426.80 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $13.72 on 26 October 2004. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 26 October 2004 18k gold was worth about $10.29 per gram and 14k about $8.00 per gram, against $13.72 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 58.3 on 26 October 2004, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 58.3 ounces of silver.
It closed 0.51% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2004-10-25.