Highest so far that year
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
This page is a historical record of the silver price in 6 January 2003, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 22 July 2002
Silver closed at $4.899 per troy ounce on 6 January 2003, up $0.007 (0.14%) from the previous close of $4.892.
Notable session: highest close of the month.
Silver barely moved, closing within 0.14% of the previous session. Flat days are the majority of any price series and are most useful as the baseline the notable days are measured against.
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
This close sat 4.19% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2002-06-04.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $4.642, making this a +5.54% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $4.90 per troy ounce on 6 January 2003. That is $0.01 higher than the previous close of $4.89, a move of 0.14%.
The silver price rose on 6 January 2003, gaining $0.01 (0.14%) against the previous session's close of $4.89.
At $4.90 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.16 on 6 January 2003. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 71.8 on 6 January 2003, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 71.8 ounces of silver.
A week before 6 January 2003, silver was around $4.66 per troy ounce, so the close of $4.90 is a gain of 5.1% over the week.
A month before 6 January 2003, silver was around $4.63 per troy ounce, so the close of $4.90 is a gain of 5.8% over the month.
It closed 4.19% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2002-06-04.
The most recent higher close was about 6 months earlier — 116 trading sessions before this one.