Highest so far that month
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This page is a historical record of the silver price in 15 May 2015, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 28 January 2015
Silver closed at $17.55 per troy ounce on 15 May 2015, up $0.096 (0.55%) from the previous close of $17.45.
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.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This close sat 63.89% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-04-29.
One of the ten highest silver closes of that year, ranking 10 of 250 sessions.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $19.45, making this a -9.78% move year on year.
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Silver closed at $17.55 per troy ounce on 15 May 2015. That is $0.10 higher than the previous close of $17.45, a move of 0.55%.
The silver price rose on 15 May 2015, gaining $0.10 (0.55%) against the previous session's close of $17.45.
At $17.55 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.56 on 15 May 2015. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 69.8 on 15 May 2015, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 69.8 ounces of silver.
A week before 15 May 2015, silver was around $16.44 per troy ounce, so the close of $17.55 is a gain of 6.7% over the week.
A month before 15 May 2015, silver was around $16.27 per troy ounce, so the close of $17.55 is a gain of 7.8% over the month.
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 63.89% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-04-29.
The most recent higher close was about 4 months earlier — 75 trading sessions before this one.