Distance from the record
This close sat 8.79% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2000-08-31.
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This page is a historical record of the silver price in 15 December 2000, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Silver's lowest closing price on record
Silver closed at $4.563 per troy ounce on 15 December 2000, down $0.035 (0.76%) from the previous close of $4.598.
Notable session: lowest close of the year; lowest close of the month.
No earlier session closed lower. Lows on this scale usually mark the end of a long decline rather than a single bad day, so the surrounding weeks carry more information than this close alone.
This close sat 8.79% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2000-08-31.
One of the ten lowest silver closes of that year, ranking 84 of 84 sessions.
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Silver closed at $4.56 per troy ounce on 15 December 2000. That is $0.03 lower than the previous close of $4.60, a move of -0.76%.
The silver price fell on 15 December 2000, losing $0.03 (0.76%) against the previous session's close of $4.60.
At $4.56 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.15 on 15 December 2000. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 59.3 on 15 December 2000, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 59.3 ounces of silver.
Yes. No earlier session had closed lower at the time. The series has moved since, so this describes the record as it stood on that date.
This close was session 3 of a consecutive run of losses. A run is counted by closes, so an intraday reversal that still closed in the same direction does not break it.
It closed 8.79% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2000-08-31.