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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 17 August 2010, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 30 June 2010
Silver closed at $18.59 per troy ounce on 17 August 2010, up $0.168 (0.91%) from the previous close of $18.42.
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 10.15% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-05.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $13.97, making this a +33.03% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $18.59 per troy ounce on 17 August 2010. That is $0.17 higher than the previous close of $18.42, a move of 0.91%.
The silver price rose on 17 August 2010, gaining $0.17 (0.91%) against the previous session's close of $18.42.
At $18.59 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.60 on 17 August 2010. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 66.0 on 17 August 2010, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 66.0 ounces of silver.
A week before 17 August 2010, silver was around $18.15 per troy ounce, so the close of $18.59 is a gain of 2.4% over the week.
A year before 17 August 2010, silver was around $13.97 per troy ounce. The close of $18.59 therefore represents a rise of 33.0% 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 10.15% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2008-03-05.