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No earlier session that month closed above this level.
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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 3 October 2005, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Gold closed at $466.10 per troy ounce on 3 October 2005, down $2.900 (0.62%) from the previous close of $469.00.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This close sat 1.29% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2005-09-29.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $428.50, making this a +8.77% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $466.10 per troy ounce on 3 October 2005. That is $2.90 lower than the previous close of $469.00, a move of -0.62%.
The gold price fell on 3 October 2005, losing $2.90 (0.62%) against the previous session's close of $469.00.
At $466.10 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $14.99 on 3 October 2005. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 3 October 2005 18k gold was worth about $11.24 per gram and 14k about $8.74 per gram, against $14.99 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 63.0 on 3 October 2005, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 63.0 ounces of silver.
It closed 1.29% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2005-09-29.