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 silver price in 11 January 2010, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 3 December 2009
Silver closed at $18.68 per troy ounce on 11 January 2010, up $0.225 (1.22%) from the previous close of $18.46.
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 9.68% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-05.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $11.30, making this a +65.41% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $18.68 per troy ounce on 11 January 2010. That is $0.23 higher than the previous close of $18.46, a move of 1.22%.
The silver price rose on 11 January 2010, gaining $0.23 (1.22%) against the previous session's close of $18.46.
At $18.68 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.60 on 11 January 2010. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 61.6 on 11 January 2010, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 61.6 ounces of silver.
A week before 11 January 2010, silver was around $17.44 per troy ounce, so the close of $18.68 is a gain of 7.1% over the week.
A month before 11 January 2010, silver was around $17.08 per troy ounce, so the close of $18.68 is a gain of 9.4% over the month.
A year before 11 January 2010, silver was around $11.30 per troy ounce. The close of $18.68 therefore represents a rise of 65.4% 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 9.68% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2008-03-05.