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 8 December 2005, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Silver's highest closing price on record
Silver closed at $8.894 per troy ounce on 8 December 2005, up $0.116 (1.32%) from the previous close of $8.778.
No session before this one closed higher — this was the highest silver close on record at the time. Records tend to cluster, so the days either side are worth reading together rather than in isolation.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
One of the ten highest silver closes of that year, ranking 2 of 244 sessions.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $7.102, making this a +25.23% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $8.89 per troy ounce on 8 December 2005. That is $0.12 higher than the previous close of $8.78, a move of 1.32%.
The silver price rose on 8 December 2005, gaining $0.12 (1.32%) against the previous session's close of $8.78.
At $8.89 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.29 on 8 December 2005. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 58.4 on 8 December 2005, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 58.4 ounces of silver.
A month before 8 December 2005, silver was around $7.60 per troy ounce, so the close of $8.89 is a gain of 17.0% over the month.
A year before 8 December 2005, silver was around $7.10 per troy ounce. The close of $8.89 therefore represents a rise of 25.2% over twelve months.
Yes. At the time, no earlier session had closed higher. Later sessions may have exceeded it — this page describes the record as it stood on that date, not today's all-time high.
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 was at the record itself — the highest close recorded up to that date.