Highest so far that week
This was the strongest close of the week up to that point.
This page is a historical record of the silver price in 7 December 2005, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Silver closed at $8.778 per troy ounce on 7 December 2005, up $0.086 (0.99%) from the previous close of $8.692.
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.
This was the strongest close of the week up to that point.
One of the ten highest silver closes of that year, ranking 8 of 244 sessions.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $7.838, making this a +11.99% move year on year.
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Silver closed at $8.78 per troy ounce on 7 December 2005. That is $0.09 higher than the previous close of $8.69, a move of 0.99%.
The silver price rose on 7 December 2005, gaining $0.09 (0.99%) against the previous session's close of $8.69.
At $8.78 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.28 on 7 December 2005. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 58.6 on 7 December 2005, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 58.6 ounces of silver.
A week before 7 December 2005, silver was around $8.28 per troy ounce, so the close of $8.78 is a gain of 6.0% over the week.
A month before 7 December 2005, silver was around $7.58 per troy ounce, so the close of $8.78 is a gain of 15.8% over the month.
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 0.48% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2005-12-01.