Highest so far that month
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This page is a historical record of the silver price in 23 May 2001, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 14 February 2001
Silver closed at $4.560 per troy ounce on 23 May 2001, up $0.016 (0.35%) from the previous close of $4.544.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This close sat 8.85% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2000-08-31.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $4.56 per troy ounce on 23 May 2001. That is $0.02 higher than the previous close of $4.54, a move of 0.35%.
The silver price rose on 23 May 2001, gaining $0.02 (0.35%) against the previous session's close of $4.54.
At $4.56 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.15 on 23 May 2001. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 62.2 on 23 May 2001, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 62.2 ounces of silver.
A week before 23 May 2001, silver was around $4.44 per troy ounce, so the close of $4.56 is a gain of 2.7% over the week.
It closed 8.85% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2000-08-31.
The most recent higher close was about 3 months earlier — 68 trading sessions before this one.