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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 28 May 2009, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 25 February 2009
Gold closed at $961.50 per troy ounce on 28 May 2009, up $8.300 (0.87%) from the previous close of $953.20.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This close sat 4.16% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-18.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $900.50, making this a +6.77% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $961.50 per troy ounce on 28 May 2009. That is $8.30 higher than the previous close of $953.20, a move of 0.87%.
The gold price rose on 28 May 2009, gaining $8.30 (0.87%) against the previous session's close of $953.20.
At $961.50 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $30.91 on 28 May 2009. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 28 May 2009 18k gold was worth about $23.18 per gram and 14k about $18.03 per gram, against $30.91 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 63.5 on 28 May 2009, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 63.5 ounces of silver.
A month before 28 May 2009, gold was around $892.80 per troy ounce, so the close of $961.50 is a gain of 7.7% over the month.
It closed 4.16% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2008-03-18.
The most recent higher close was about 3 months earlier — 63 trading sessions before this one.