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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 May 2009, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 24 April 2009
Gold closed at $910.50 per troy ounce on 6 May 2009, up $6.800 (0.75%) from the previous close of $903.70.
This close extended a run of 3 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.
This close sat 9.24% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-18.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $876.00, making this a +3.94% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $910.50 per troy ounce on 6 May 2009. That is $6.80 higher than the previous close of $903.70, a move of 0.75%.
The gold price rose on 6 May 2009, gaining $6.80 (0.75%) against the previous session's close of $903.70.
At $910.50 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $29.27 on 6 May 2009. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 6 May 2009 18k gold was worth about $21.95 per gram and 14k about $17.08 per gram, against $29.27 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 66.5 on 6 May 2009, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 66.5 ounces of silver.
This close was session 3 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 9.24% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2008-03-18.