Highest so far that month
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
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This page is a historical record of the silver price in 4 October 2012, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 28 February 2012
Silver closed at $35.04 per troy ounce on 4 October 2012, up $0.410 (1.18%) from the previous close of $34.63.
Notable session: highest close of the month.
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 27.88% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-04-29.
One of the ten highest silver closes of that year, ranking 5 of 247 sessions.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $29.80, making this a +17.61% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $35.04 per troy ounce on 4 October 2012. That is $0.41 higher than the previous close of $34.63, a move of 1.18%.
The silver price rose on 4 October 2012, gaining $0.41 (1.18%) against the previous session's close of $34.63.
At $35.04 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $1.13 on 4 October 2012. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 51.2 on 4 October 2012, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 51.2 ounces of silver.
A month before 4 October 2012, silver was around $32.35 per troy ounce, so the close of $35.04 is a gain of 8.3% over the month.
A year before 4 October 2012, silver was around $29.80 per troy ounce. The close of $35.04 therefore represents a rise of 17.6% 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 27.88% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-04-29.
The most recent higher close was about 7 months earlier — 150 trading sessions before this one.