Highest so far that year
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
This page is a historical record of the silver price in 10 October 2005, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 7 December 2004
Silver closed at $7.799 per troy ounce on 10 October 2005, up $0.074 (0.96%) from the previous close of $7.725.
This close extended a run of 4 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 5.02% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2004-04-06.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $7.273, making this a +7.23% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $7.80 per troy ounce on 10 October 2005. That is $0.07 higher than the previous close of $7.72, a move of 0.96%.
The silver price rose on 10 October 2005, gaining $0.07 (0.96%) against the previous session's close of $7.72.
At $7.80 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.25 on 10 October 2005. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 60.9 on 10 October 2005, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 60.9 ounces of silver.
A week before 10 October 2005, silver was around $7.40 per troy ounce, so the close of $7.80 is a gain of 5.3% over the week.
A month before 10 October 2005, silver was around $7.00 per troy ounce, so the close of $7.80 is a gain of 11.4% over the month.
This close was session 4 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 5.02% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2004-04-06.
The most recent higher close was about 10 months earlier — 205 trading sessions before this one.