Highest so far that year
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
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This page is a historical record of the silver price in 17 April 2017, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 10 November 2016
Silver closed at $18.49 per troy ounce on 17 April 2017, up $0.004 (0.02%) from the previous close of $18.49.
Notable session: highest close of the year; highest close of the month.
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.
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
This close sat 61.94% 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 1 of 249 sessions.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $16.31, making this a +13.39% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $18.49 per troy ounce on 17 April 2017. That is $0.00 higher than the previous close of $18.49, a move of 0.02%.
The silver price rose on 17 April 2017, gaining $0.00 (0.02%) against the previous session's close of $18.49.
At $18.49 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.59 on 17 April 2017. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 69.7 on 17 April 2017, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 69.7 ounces of silver.
A week before 17 April 2017, silver was around $17.89 per troy ounce, so the close of $18.49 is a gain of 3.3% over the week.
A month before 17 April 2017, silver was around $17.38 per troy ounce, so the close of $18.49 is a gain of 6.4% over the month.
A year before 17 April 2017, silver was around $16.31 per troy ounce. The close of $18.49 therefore represents a rise of 13.4% over twelve months.
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 61.94% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-04-29.
The most recent higher close was about 5 months earlier — 104 trading sessions before this one.