Distance from the record
This close sat 4.80% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2003-07-28.
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This page is a historical record of the silver price in 21 August 2003, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Silver closed at $4.941 per troy ounce on 21 August 2003, down $0.077 (1.53%) from the previous close of $5.018.
Silver moved the opposite way to the session before it. Single-day reversals are common and usually mean little on their own — what matters is whether the next few sessions follow.
This close sat 4.80% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2003-07-28.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $4.417, making this a +11.86% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $4.94 per troy ounce on 21 August 2003. That is $0.08 lower than the previous close of $5.02, a move of -1.53%.
The silver price fell on 21 August 2003, losing $0.08 (1.53%) against the previous session's close of $5.02.
At $4.94 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.16 on 21 August 2003. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 73.0 on 21 August 2003, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 73.0 ounces of silver.
It closed 4.80% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2003-07-28.