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 October 2005, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 7 December 2004
Silver closed at $7.827 per troy ounce on 17 October 2005, up $0.013 (0.17%) from the previous close of $7.814.
Notable session: highest close of the month.
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
This close sat 4.68% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2004-04-06.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $7.091, making this a +10.38% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $7.83 per troy ounce on 17 October 2005. That is $0.01 higher than the previous close of $7.81, a move of 0.17%.
The silver price rose on 17 October 2005, gaining $0.01 (0.17%) against the previous session's close of $7.81.
At $7.83 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.25 on 17 October 2005. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 60.6 on 17 October 2005, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 60.6 ounces of silver.
A month before 17 October 2005, silver was around $7.23 per troy ounce, so the close of $7.83 is a gain of 8.3% over the month.
It closed 4.68% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2004-04-06.
The most recent higher close was about 10 months earlier — 210 trading sessions before this one.