This page is a historical record of the gold price in 28 October 2005, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Gold closed at $473.00 per troy ounce on 28 October 2005, down $0.800 (0.17%) from the previous close of $473.80.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $425.10, making this a +11.27% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $473.00 per troy ounce on 28 October 2005. That is $0.80 lower than the previous close of $473.80, a move of -0.17%.
The gold price fell on 28 October 2005, losing $0.80 (0.17%) against the previous session's close of $473.80.
At $473.00 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $15.21 on 28 October 2005. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 28 October 2005 18k gold was worth about $11.41 per gram and 14k about $8.87 per gram, against $15.21 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 60.7 on 28 October 2005, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 60.7 ounces of silver.
It closed 0.86% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2005-10-11.