Silver's highest closing price on record
Silver closed at $9.720 per troy ounce on 1 February 2006, up $0.900 (10.20%) from the previous close of $8.820.
Notable session: lowest close of the year; moved more than 3% in a session.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $7.359, making this a +32.08% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $9.72 per troy ounce on 1 February 2006. That is $0.90 higher than the previous close of $8.82, a move of 10.20%.
The silver price rose on 1 February 2006, gaining $0.90 (10.20%) against the previous session's close of $8.82.
At $9.72 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.31 on 1 February 2006. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 57.8 on 1 February 2006, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 57.8 ounces of silver.
A week before 1 February 2006, silver was around $8.82 per troy ounce, so the close of $9.72 is a gain of 10.2% over the week.
A month before 1 February 2006, silver was around $8.82 per troy ounce, so the close of $9.72 is a gain of 10.2% over the month.
A year before 1 February 2006, silver was around $7.36 per troy ounce. The close of $9.72 therefore represents a rise of 32.1% over twelve months.