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 May 2010, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 3 December 2009
Silver closed at $18.81 per troy ounce on 3 May 2010, up $0.202 (1.09%) from the previous close of $18.61.
This close extended a run of 3 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 9.05% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-05.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $15.60, making this a +20.60% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $18.81 per troy ounce on 3 May 2010. That is $0.20 higher than the previous close of $18.61, a move of 1.09%.
The silver price rose on 3 May 2010, gaining $0.20 (1.09%) against the previous session's close of $18.61.
At $18.81 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.60 on 3 May 2010. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 62.9 on 3 May 2010, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 62.9 ounces of silver.
A week before 3 May 2010, silver was around $18.33 per troy ounce, so the close of $18.81 is a gain of 2.6% over the week.
A year before 3 May 2010, silver was around $15.60 per troy ounce. The close of $18.81 therefore represents a rise of 20.6% over twelve months.
This close was session 3 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 9.05% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2008-03-05.
The most recent higher close was about 5 months earlier — 103 trading sessions before this one.