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No earlier session that month closed above this level.
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This page is a historical record of the silver price in 16 August 2013, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 14 May 2013
Silver closed at $23.32 per troy ounce on 16 August 2013, up $0.388 (1.69%) from the previous close of $22.93.
This close extended a run of 7 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 52.01% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-04-29.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $28.20, making this a -17.33% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $23.32 per troy ounce on 16 August 2013. That is $0.39 higher than the previous close of $22.93, a move of 1.69%.
The silver price rose on 16 August 2013, gaining $0.39 (1.69%) against the previous session's close of $22.93.
At $23.32 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.75 on 16 August 2013. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 58.8 on 16 August 2013, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 58.8 ounces of silver.
A week before 16 August 2013, silver was around $20.40 per troy ounce, so the close of $23.32 is a gain of 14.3% over the week.
A month before 16 August 2013, silver was around $19.92 per troy ounce, so the close of $23.32 is a gain of 17.0% over the month.
A year before 16 August 2013, silver was around $28.20 per troy ounce. The close of $23.32 therefore represents a fall of 17.3% over twelve months.
This close was session 7 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 52.01% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-04-29.
The most recent higher close was about 3 months earlier — 65 trading sessions before this one.