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 12 January 2005, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 30 December 2004
Silver closed at $6.728 per troy ounce on 12 January 2005, up $0.105 (1.59%) from the previous close of $6.623.
This close extended a run of 3 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 18.06% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2004-04-06.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $6.605, making this a +1.86% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $6.73 per troy ounce on 12 January 2005. That is $0.11 higher than the previous close of $6.62, a move of 1.59%.
The silver price rose on 12 January 2005, gaining $0.11 (1.59%) against the previous session's close of $6.62.
At $6.73 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.22 on 12 January 2005. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 63.3 on 12 January 2005, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 63.3 ounces of silver.
A week before 12 January 2005, silver was around $6.51 per troy ounce, so the close of $6.73 is a gain of 3.3% over the week.
This close was session 3 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 18.06% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2004-04-06.