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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 6 December 2002, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 4 June 2002
Gold closed at $326.30 per troy ounce on 6 December 2002, up $1.500 (0.46%) from the previous close of $324.80.
This close extended a run of 5 consecutive sessions of gains. Runs are more informative than any one day inside them: they show direction holding rather than a single session's noise.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $274.20, making this a +19.00% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $326.30 per troy ounce on 6 December 2002. That is $1.50 higher than the previous close of $324.80, a move of 0.46%.
The gold price rose on 6 December 2002, gaining $1.50 (0.46%) against the previous session's close of $324.80.
At $326.30 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $10.49 on 6 December 2002. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 6 December 2002 18k gold was worth about $7.87 per gram and 14k about $6.12 per gram, against $10.49 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 70.4 on 6 December 2002, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 70.4 ounces of silver.
A week before 6 December 2002, gold was around $316.80 per troy ounce, so the close of $326.30 is a gain of 3.0% over the week.
A year before 6 December 2002, gold was around $274.20 per troy ounce. The close of $326.30 therefore represents a rise of 19.0% over twelve months.
This close was session 5 of a consecutive run of gains. A run is counted by closes, so an intraday reversal that still closed in the same direction does not break it.
It closed 0.46% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2002-06-04.
The most recent higher close was about 6 months earlier — 128 trading sessions before this one.