Distance from the record
This close sat 12.65% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2002-06-04.
This page is a historical record of the silver price in 17 April 2003, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Lowest closing price since 7 April 2003
Silver closed at $4.466 per troy ounce on 17 April 2003, down $0.015 (0.33%) from the previous close of $4.481.
This close extended a run of 3 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 12.65% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2002-06-04.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $4.445, making this a +0.47% move year on year.
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Silver closed at $4.47 per troy ounce on 17 April 2003. That is $0.01 lower than the previous close of $4.48, a move of -0.33%.
The silver price fell on 17 April 2003, losing $0.01 (0.33%) against the previous session's close of $4.48.
At $4.47 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.14 on 17 April 2003. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 73.3 on 17 April 2003, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 73.3 ounces of silver.
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 12.65% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2002-06-04.