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No earlier session that month closed above this level.
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This page is a historical record of the silver price in 5 August 2009, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 12 June 2009
Silver closed at $14.75 per troy ounce on 5 August 2009, up $0.065 (0.44%) from the previous close of $14.69.
This close extended a run of 5 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 28.68% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-05.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $16.54, making this a -10.79% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $14.75 per troy ounce on 5 August 2009. That is $0.07 higher than the previous close of $14.69, a move of 0.44%.
The silver price rose on 5 August 2009, gaining $0.07 (0.44%) against the previous session's close of $14.69.
At $14.75 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.47 on 5 August 2009. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 65.4 on 5 August 2009, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 65.4 ounces of silver.
A week before 5 August 2009, silver was around $13.25 per troy ounce, so the close of $14.75 is a gain of 11.3% over the week.
A month before 5 August 2009, silver was around $13.39 per troy ounce, so the close of $14.75 is a gain of 10.2% over the month.
This close was session 5 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 28.68% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2008-03-05.