Distance from the record
This close sat 15.99% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2000-08-31.
This page is a historical record of the silver price in 26 October 2001, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Silver closed at $4.203 per troy ounce on 26 October 2001, down $0.005 (0.12%) from the previous close of $4.208.
Silver barely moved, closing within 0.12% of the previous session. Flat days are the majority of any price series and are most useful as the baseline the notable days are measured against.
This close sat 15.99% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2000-08-31.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $4.731, making this a -11.16% move year on year.
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Silver closed at $4.20 per troy ounce on 26 October 2001. That is $0.01 lower than the previous close of $4.21, a move of -0.12%.
The silver price fell on 26 October 2001, losing $0.01 (0.12%) against the previous session's close of $4.21.
At $4.20 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.14 on 26 October 2001. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 66.1 on 26 October 2001, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 66.1 ounces of silver.
A month before 26 October 2001, silver was around $4.60 per troy ounce, so the close of $4.20 is a loss of 8.6% over the month.
It closed 15.99% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2000-08-31.