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 3 January 2003, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 22 July 2002
Silver closed at $4.892 per troy ounce on 3 January 2003, up $0.080 (1.66%) from the previous close of $4.812.
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.
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
This close sat 4.32% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2002-06-04.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $4.599, making this a +6.37% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $4.89 per troy ounce on 3 January 2003. That is $0.08 higher than the previous close of $4.81, a move of 1.66%.
The silver price rose on 3 January 2003, gaining $0.08 (1.66%) against the previous session's close of $4.81.
At $4.89 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.16 on 3 January 2003. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 71.8 on 3 January 2003, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 71.8 ounces of silver.
A week before 3 January 2003, silver was around $4.71 per troy ounce, so the close of $4.89 is a gain of 3.8% over the week.
A month before 3 January 2003, silver was around $4.53 per troy ounce, so the close of $4.89 is a gain of 7.9% over the month.
It closed 4.32% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2002-06-04.
The most recent higher close was about 5 months earlier — 115 trading sessions before this one.