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 26 January 2009, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 30 September 2008
Silver closed at $12.10 per troy ounce on 26 January 2009, up $0.170 (1.42%) from the previous close of $11.93.
This close extended a run of 4 consecutive sessions of gains. Runs are more informative than any one day inside them: they show direction holding rather than a single session's noise.
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
This close sat 41.49% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-05.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $16.43, making this a -26.33% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $12.10 per troy ounce on 26 January 2009. That is $0.17 higher than the previous close of $11.93, a move of 1.42%.
The silver price rose on 26 January 2009, gaining $0.17 (1.42%) against the previous session's close of $11.93.
At $12.10 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.39 on 26 January 2009. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 75.1 on 26 January 2009, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 75.1 ounces of silver.
A week before 26 January 2009, silver was around $11.19 per troy ounce, so the close of $12.10 is a gain of 8.1% over the week.
A month before 26 January 2009, silver was around $10.50 per troy ounce, so the close of $12.10 is a gain of 15.2% over the month.
A year before 26 January 2009, silver was around $16.43 per troy ounce. The close of $12.10 therefore represents a fall of 26.3% over twelve months.
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 41.49% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2008-03-05.
The most recent higher close was about 4 months earlier — 79 trading sessions before this one.