Distance from the record
This close sat 67.65% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-04-29.
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This page is a historical record of the silver price in 7 December 2017, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Lowest closing price since 13 July 2017
Silver closed at $15.72 per troy ounce on 7 December 2017, down $0.153 (0.96%) from the previous close of $15.87.
This close extended a run of 4 consecutive sessions of losses. Runs are more informative than any one day inside them: they show direction holding rather than a single session's noise.
This close sat 67.65% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-04-29.
One of the ten lowest silver closes of that year, ranking 243 of 249 sessions.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $17.20, making this a -8.65% move year on year.
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Silver closed at $15.72 per troy ounce on 7 December 2017. That is $0.15 lower than the previous close of $15.87, a move of -0.96%.
The silver price fell on 7 December 2017, losing $0.15 (0.96%) against the previous session's close of $15.87.
At $15.72 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.51 on 7 December 2017. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 79.5 on 7 December 2017, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 79.5 ounces of silver.
A week before 7 December 2017, silver was around $16.38 per troy ounce, so the close of $15.72 is a loss of 4.1% over the week.
A month before 7 December 2017, silver was around $16.91 per troy ounce, so the close of $15.72 is a loss of 7.0% over the month.
This close was session 4 of a consecutive run of losses. A run is counted by closes, so an intraday reversal that still closed in the same direction does not break it.
It closed 67.65% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-04-29.