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 2008, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 9 November 2007
Silver closed at $15.38 per troy ounce on 3 January 2008, up $0.215 (1.42%) from the previous close of $15.17.
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.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $12.56, making this a +22.52% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $15.38 per troy ounce on 3 January 2008. That is $0.22 higher than the previous close of $15.17, a move of 1.42%.
The silver price rose on 3 January 2008, gaining $0.22 (1.42%) against the previous session's close of $15.17.
At $15.38 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.49 on 3 January 2008. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 56.3 on 3 January 2008, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 56.3 ounces of silver.
A week before 3 January 2008, silver was around $14.68 per troy ounce, so the close of $15.38 is a gain of 4.8% over the week.
A month before 3 January 2008, silver was around $14.01 per troy ounce, so the close of $15.38 is a gain of 9.8% over the month.
A year before 3 January 2008, silver was around $12.56 per troy ounce. The close of $15.38 therefore represents a rise of 22.5% 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 0.75% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2007-11-09.