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 5 September 2006, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 30 May 2006
Silver closed at $13.01 per troy ounce on 5 September 2006, up $0.090 (0.70%) from the previous close of $12.91.
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 12.40% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2006-05-11.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $7.000, making this a +85.79% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $13.01 per troy ounce on 5 September 2006. That is $0.09 higher than the previous close of $12.91, a move of 0.70%.
The silver price rose on 5 September 2006, gaining $0.09 (0.70%) against the previous session's close of $12.91.
At $13.01 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.42 on 5 September 2006. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 49.1 on 5 September 2006, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 49.1 ounces of silver.
A week before 5 September 2006, silver was around $12.14 per troy ounce, so the close of $13.01 is a gain of 7.1% over the week.
A year before 5 September 2006, silver was around $7.00 per troy ounce. The close of $13.01 therefore represents a rise of 85.8% over twelve months.
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 12.40% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2006-05-11.
The most recent higher close was about 3 months earlier — 66 trading sessions before this one.