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 5 December 2002, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 24 September 2002
Silver closed at $4.622 per troy ounce on 5 December 2002, up $0.063 (1.38%) from the previous close of $4.559.
This close extended a run of 4 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 9.60% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2002-06-04.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $4.176, making this a +10.68% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $4.62 per troy ounce on 5 December 2002. That is $0.06 higher than the previous close of $4.56, a move of 1.38%.
The silver price rose on 5 December 2002, gaining $0.06 (1.38%) against the previous session's close of $4.56.
At $4.62 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.15 on 5 December 2002. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 70.3 on 5 December 2002, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 70.3 ounces of silver.
A week before 5 December 2002, silver was around $4.41 per troy ounce, so the close of $4.62 is a gain of 4.7% over the week.
This close was session 4 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 9.60% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2002-06-04.