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 November 2005, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 7 April 2004
Silver closed at $8.087 per troy ounce on 17 November 2005, up $0.101 (1.26%) from the previous close of $7.986.
Silver had not closed this high for about 2 years. Reclaiming a level after that long usually says more about the trend than the size of the day's move does.
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
This close sat 1.51% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2004-04-06.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $7.662, making this a +5.55% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $8.09 per troy ounce on 17 November 2005. That is $0.10 higher than the previous close of $7.99, a move of 1.26%.
The silver price rose on 17 November 2005, gaining $0.10 (1.26%) against the previous session's close of $7.99.
At $8.09 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.26 on 17 November 2005. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 60.1 on 17 November 2005, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 60.1 ounces of silver.
A week before 17 November 2005, silver was around $7.68 per troy ounce, so the close of $8.09 is a gain of 5.2% over the week.
This close was session 9 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 1.51% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2004-04-06.
The most recent higher close was about 2 years earlier — 397 trading sessions before this one.