Highest so far that week
This was the strongest close of the week up to that point.
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This page is a historical record of the silver price in 17 May 2002, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Silver closed at $4.654 per troy ounce on 17 May 2002, up $0.015 (0.32%) from the previous close of $4.639.
This close extended a run of 3 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.
This was the strongest close of the week up to that point.
This close sat 6.98% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2000-08-31.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $4.470, making this a +4.12% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $4.65 per troy ounce on 17 May 2002. That is $0.01 higher than the previous close of $4.64, a move of 0.32%.
The silver price rose on 17 May 2002, gaining $0.01 (0.32%) against the previous session's close of $4.64.
At $4.65 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.15 on 17 May 2002. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 66.7 on 17 May 2002, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 66.7 ounces of silver.
This close was session 3 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 6.98% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2000-08-31.