Highest so far that month
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This page is a historical record of the silver price in 4 December 2002, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 15 November 2002
Silver closed at $4.559 per troy ounce on 4 December 2002, up $0.027 (0.60%) from the previous close of $4.532.
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.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This close sat 10.84% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2002-06-04.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $4.128, making this a +10.44% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $4.56 per troy ounce on 4 December 2002. That is $0.03 higher than the previous close of $4.53, a move of 0.60%.
The silver price rose on 4 December 2002, gaining $0.03 (0.60%) against the previous session's close of $4.53.
At $4.56 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.15 on 4 December 2002. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 70.7 on 4 December 2002, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 70.7 ounces of silver.
A week before 4 December 2002, silver was around $4.41 per troy ounce, so the close of $4.56 is a gain of 3.3% over the week.
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 10.84% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2002-06-04.