Distance from the record
This close sat 10.25% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2000-08-31.
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This page is a historical record of the silver price in 3 January 2001, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Silver's lowest closing price on record
Silver closed at $4.490 per troy ounce on 3 January 2001, down $0.055 (1.21%) from the previous close of $4.545.
Notable session: lowest close of the month.
No earlier session closed lower. Lows on this scale usually mark the end of a long decline rather than a single bad day, so the surrounding weeks carry more information than this close alone.
This close sat 10.25% 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 $4.49 per troy ounce on 3 January 2001. That is $0.06 lower than the previous close of $4.55, a move of -1.21%.
The silver price fell on 3 January 2001, losing $0.06 (1.21%) against the previous session's close of $4.55.
At $4.49 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.14 on 3 January 2001. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 59.7 on 3 January 2001, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 59.7 ounces of silver.
A week before 3 January 2001, silver was around $4.58 per troy ounce, so the close of $4.49 is a loss of 2.0% over the week.
Yes. No earlier session had closed lower at the time. The series has moved since, so this describes the record as it stood on that date.
It closed 10.25% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2000-08-31.