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This close sat 9.76% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-08-22.
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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 5 May 2020, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Gold closed at $1,704.40 per troy ounce on 5 May 2020, down $2.500 (0.15%) from the previous close of $1,706.90.
Gold barely moved, closing within 0.15% of the previous session. Flat days are the majority of any price series and are most useful as the baseline the notable days are measured against.
This close sat 9.76% 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 $1,279.20, making this a +33.24% move year on year.
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Gold closed at $1,704.40 per troy ounce on 5 May 2020. That is $2.50 lower than the previous close of $1,706.90, a move of -0.15%.
The gold price fell on 5 May 2020, losing $2.50 (0.15%) against the previous session's close of $1,706.90.
At $1,704.40 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $54.80 on 5 May 2020. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 5 May 2020 18k gold was worth about $41.10 per gram and 14k about $31.97 per gram, against $54.80 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 113.2 on 5 May 2020, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 113.2 ounces of silver.
A year before 5 May 2020, gold was around $1,279.20 per troy ounce. The close of $1,704.40 therefore represents a rise of 33.2% over twelve months.
It closed 9.76% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-08-22.