Distance from the record
This close sat 36.43% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-08-22.
This page is a historical record of the gold price in 4 March 2015, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Gold closed at $1,200.60 per troy ounce on 4 March 2015, down $3.400 (0.28%) from the previous close of $1,204.00.
This close extended a run of 3 consecutive sessions of losses. Runs are more informative than any one day inside them: they show direction holding rather than a single session's noise.
This close sat 36.43% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-08-22.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $1,337.80, making this a -10.26% move year on year.
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Gold closed at $1,200.60 per troy ounce on 4 March 2015. That is $3.40 lower than the previous close of $1,204.00, a move of -0.28%.
The gold price fell on 4 March 2015, losing $3.40 (0.28%) against the previous session's close of $1,204.00.
At $1,200.60 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $38.60 on 4 March 2015. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 4 March 2015 18k gold was worth about $28.95 per gram and 14k about $22.52 per gram, against $38.60 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 74.4 on 4 March 2015, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 74.4 ounces of silver.
A month before 4 March 2015, gold was around $1,263.80 per troy ounce, so the close of $1,200.60 is a loss of 5.0% over the month.
This close was session 3 of a consecutive run of losses. A run is counted by closes, so an intraday reversal that still closed in the same direction does not break it.
It closed 36.43% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-08-22.