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 2 April 2002, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 2 February 2001
Silver closed at $4.738 per troy ounce on 2 April 2002, up $0.206 (4.55%) from the previous close of $4.532.
Notable session: highest close of the month; moved more than 3% in a session.
This was a 4.55% move in one session — well beyond a typical day for silver. Moves this size are usually a reaction to something specific rather than ordinary drift, so the surrounding news is worth checking alongside the number.
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
This close sat 5.30% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2000-08-31.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $4.298, making this a +10.24% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $4.74 per troy ounce on 2 April 2002. That is $0.21 higher than the previous close of $4.53, a move of 4.55%.
The silver price rose on 2 April 2002, gaining $0.21 (4.55%) against the previous session's close of $4.53.
At $4.74 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.15 on 2 April 2002. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 64.6 on 2 April 2002, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 64.6 ounces of silver.
A week before 2 April 2002, silver was around $4.58 per troy ounce, so the close of $4.74 is a gain of 3.5% over the week.
It closed 5.30% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2000-08-31.
The most recent higher close was about a year earlier — 286 trading sessions before this one.