Highest so far that year
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
This page is a historical record of the silver price in 2 June 2009, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 7 August 2008
Silver closed at $15.94 per troy ounce on 2 June 2009, up $0.345 (2.21%) from the previous close of $15.60.
Notable session: highest close of the month.
This was a 2.21% 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 22.92% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-05.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $16.87, making this a -5.51% move year on year.
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Silver closed at $15.94 per troy ounce on 2 June 2009. That is $0.34 higher than the previous close of $15.60, a move of 2.21%.
The silver price rose on 2 June 2009, gaining $0.34 (2.21%) against the previous session's close of $15.60.
At $15.94 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.51 on 2 June 2009. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 61.7 on 2 June 2009, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 61.7 ounces of silver.
A week before 2 June 2009, silver was around $14.59 per troy ounce, so the close of $15.94 is a gain of 9.3% over the week.
This close was session 4 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 22.92% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2008-03-05.
The most recent higher close was about 10 months earlier — 203 trading sessions before this one.