Highest so far that week
This was the strongest close of the week up to that point.
This page is a historical record of the silver price in 12 April 2016, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 1 April 2016
Silver closed at $16.22 per troy ounce on 12 April 2016, up $0.246 (1.54%) from the previous close of $15.97.
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.
This was the strongest close of the week up to that point.
This close sat 66.61% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-04-29.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $16.37, making this a -0.92% move year on year.
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Silver closed at $16.22 per troy ounce on 12 April 2016. That is $0.25 higher than the previous close of $15.97, a move of 1.54%.
The silver price rose on 12 April 2016, gaining $0.25 (1.54%) against the previous session's close of $15.97.
At $16.22 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.52 on 12 April 2016. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 77.6 on 12 April 2016, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 77.6 ounces of silver.
A week before 12 April 2016, silver was around $15.11 per troy ounce, so the close of $16.22 is a gain of 7.3% over the week.
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 66.61% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-04-29.