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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 9 August 2013, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 30 July 2013
Gold closed at $1,312.90 per troy ounce on 9 August 2013, up $2.200 (0.17%) from the previous close of $1,310.70.
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 30.49% 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 $1,617.10, making this a -18.81% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $1,312.90 per troy ounce on 9 August 2013. That is $2.20 higher than the previous close of $1,310.70, a move of 0.17%.
The gold price rose on 9 August 2013, gaining $2.20 (0.17%) against the previous session's close of $1,310.70.
At $1,312.90 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $42.21 on 9 August 2013. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 9 August 2013 18k gold was worth about $31.66 per gram and 14k about $24.62 per gram, against $42.21 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 64.4 on 9 August 2013, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 64.4 ounces of silver.
A month before 9 August 2013, gold was around $1,245.90 per troy ounce, so the close of $1,312.90 is a gain of 5.4% over the month.
A year before 9 August 2013, gold was around $1,617.10 per troy ounce. The close of $1,312.90 therefore represents a fall of 18.8% over twelve months.
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 30.49% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-08-22.