Highest so far that year
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 9 September 2005, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 7 December 2004
Gold closed at $449.00 per troy ounce on 9 September 2005, up $2.300 (0.51%) from the previous close of $446.70.
This close extended a run of 6 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.
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
This close sat 1.54% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2004-12-03.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $398.50, making this a +12.67% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $449.00 per troy ounce on 9 September 2005. That is $2.30 higher than the previous close of $446.70, a move of 0.51%.
The gold price rose on 9 September 2005, gaining $2.30 (0.51%) against the previous session's close of $446.70.
At $449.00 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $14.44 on 9 September 2005. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 9 September 2005 18k gold was worth about $10.83 per gram and 14k about $8.42 per gram, against $14.44 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 64.1 on 9 September 2005, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 64.1 ounces of silver.
A year before 9 September 2005, gold was around $398.50 per troy ounce. The close of $449.00 therefore represents a rise of 12.7% over twelve months.
This close was session 6 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 1.54% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2004-12-03.
The most recent higher close was about 9 months earlier — 186 trading sessions before this one.