Silver's highest closing price on record
Silver closed at $5.953 per troy ounce on 1 December 2003, up $0.598 (11.17%) from the previous close of $5.355.
Notable session: highest close of the year; moved more than 3% in a session.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $4.414, making this a +34.87% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $5.95 per troy ounce on 1 December 2003. That is $0.60 higher than the previous close of $5.36, a move of 11.17%.
The silver price rose on 1 December 2003, gaining $0.60 (11.17%) against the previous session's close of $5.36.
At $5.95 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.19 on 1 December 2003. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 69.8 on 1 December 2003, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 69.8 ounces of silver.
A week before 1 December 2003, silver was around $5.36 per troy ounce, so the close of $5.95 is a gain of 11.2% over the week.
A month before 1 December 2003, silver was around $5.36 per troy ounce, so the close of $5.95 is a gain of 11.2% over the month.
A year before 1 December 2003, silver was around $4.41 per troy ounce. The close of $5.95 therefore represents a rise of 34.9% over twelve months.