Distance from the record
This close sat 18.51% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2004-04-06.
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This page is a historical record of the silver price in 30 August 2005, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Lowest closing price since 9 February 2005
Silver closed at $6.691 per troy ounce on 30 August 2005, down $0.039 (0.58%) from the previous close of $6.730.
Notable session: lowest close of the month.
This close extended a run of 6 consecutive sessions of losses. Runs are more informative than any one day inside them: they show direction holding rather than a single session's noise.
This close sat 18.51% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2004-04-06.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $6.705, making this a -0.21% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $6.69 per troy ounce on 30 August 2005. That is $0.04 lower than the previous close of $6.73, a move of -0.58%.
The silver price fell on 30 August 2005, losing $0.04 (0.58%) against the previous session's close of $6.73.
At $6.69 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.22 on 30 August 2005. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 64.4 on 30 August 2005, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 64.4 ounces of silver.
A week before 30 August 2005, silver was around $6.96 per troy ounce, so the close of $6.69 is a loss of 3.9% over the week.
A month before 30 August 2005, silver was around $7.24 per troy ounce, so the close of $6.69 is a loss of 7.6% over the month.
This close was session 6 of a consecutive run of losses. A run is counted by closes, so an intraday reversal that still closed in the same direction does not break it.
It closed 18.51% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2004-04-06.