Distance from the record
This close sat 49.63% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-05.
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This page is a historical record of the silver price in 15 January 2009, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Lowest closing price since 24 December 2008
Silver closed at $10.42 per troy ounce on 15 January 2009, down $0.032 (0.31%) from the previous close of $10.45.
Notable session: lowest close of the year; lowest close of the month.
This close extended a run of 4 consecutive sessions of losses. Runs are more informative than any one day inside them: they show direction holding rather than a single session's noise.
This close sat 49.63% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-05.
One of the ten lowest silver closes of that year, ranking 249 of 249 sessions.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $16.20, making this a -35.70% move year on year.
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Silver closed at $10.42 per troy ounce on 15 January 2009. That is $0.03 lower than the previous close of $10.45, a move of -0.31%.
The silver price fell on 15 January 2009, losing $0.03 (0.31%) against the previous session's close of $10.45.
At $10.42 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.34 on 15 January 2009. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 77.4 on 15 January 2009, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 77.4 ounces of silver.
A week before 15 January 2009, silver was around $11.07 per troy ounce, so the close of $10.42 is a loss of 5.9% over the week.
A year before 15 January 2009, silver was around $16.20 per troy ounce. The close of $10.42 therefore represents a fall of 35.7% over twelve months.
This close was session 4 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 49.63% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2008-03-05.