This page is a historical record of the gold price in 30 August 2000, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Gold closed at $273.90 per troy ounce on 30 August 2000.
Notable session: lowest close of the month.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $273.90 per troy ounce on 30 August 2000. This is the earliest close in our records for this metal.
At $273.90 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $8.81 on 30 August 2000. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 30 August 2000 18k gold was worth about $6.60 per gram and 14k about $5.14 per gram, against $8.81 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 55.6 on 30 August 2000, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 55.6 ounces of silver.