Distance from the record
This close sat 32.94% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-05.
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This page is a historical record of the silver price in 19 August 2009, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Lowest closing price since 30 July 2009
Silver closed at $13.87 per troy ounce on 19 August 2009, down $0.085 (0.61%) from the previous close of $13.96.
Notable session: lowest close of the month.
This close extended a run of 4 consecutive sessions of losses. Runs are more informative than any one day inside them: they show direction holding rather than a single session's noise.
This close sat 32.94% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-05.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $13.09, making this a +5.94% move year on year.
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Silver closed at $13.87 per troy ounce on 19 August 2009. That is $0.09 lower than the previous close of $13.96, a move of -0.61%.
The silver price fell on 19 August 2009, losing $0.09 (0.61%) against the previous session's close of $13.96.
At $13.87 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.45 on 19 August 2009. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 68.0 on 19 August 2009, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 68.0 ounces of silver.
A week before 19 August 2009, silver was around $14.58 per troy ounce, so the close of $13.87 is a loss of 4.8% over the week.
This close was session 4 of a consecutive run of losses. A run is counted by closes, so an intraday reversal that still closed in the same direction does not break it.
It closed 32.94% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2008-03-05.