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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 3 May 2021, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 21 April 2021
Gold closed at $1,791.40 per troy ounce on 3 May 2021, up $24.10 (1.36%) from the previous close of $1,767.30.
Gold moved the opposite way to the session before it. Single-day reversals are common and usually mean little on their own — what matters is whether the next few sessions follow.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This close sat 12.68% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2020-08-06.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $1,736.90, making this a +3.14% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $1,791.40 per troy ounce on 3 May 2021. That is $24.10 higher than the previous close of $1,767.30, a move of 1.36%.
The gold price rose on 3 May 2021, gaining $24.10 (1.36%) against the previous session's close of $1,767.30.
At $1,791.40 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $57.59 on 3 May 2021. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 3 May 2021 18k gold was worth about $43.20 per gram and 14k about $33.60 per gram, against $57.59 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 66.5 on 3 May 2021, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 66.5 ounces of silver.
It closed 12.68% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2020-08-06.