Distance from the record
This close sat 46.47% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-05.
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This page is a historical record of the silver price in 8 January 2009, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Silver closed at $11.07 per troy ounce on 8 January 2009, down $0.008 (0.07%) from the previous close of $11.08.
Silver barely moved, closing within 0.07% 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.
This close sat 46.47% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-05.
One of the ten lowest silver closes of that year, ranking 245 of 249 sessions.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $15.71, making this a -29.51% move year on year.
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Silver closed at $11.07 per troy ounce on 8 January 2009. That is $0.01 lower than the previous close of $11.08, a move of -0.07%.
The silver price fell on 8 January 2009, losing $0.01 (0.07%) against the previous session's close of $11.08.
At $11.07 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.36 on 8 January 2009. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 77.1 on 8 January 2009, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 77.1 ounces of silver.
A month before 8 January 2009, silver was around $9.94 per troy ounce, so the close of $11.07 is a gain of 11.4% over the month.
A year before 8 January 2009, silver was around $15.71 per troy ounce. The close of $11.07 therefore represents a fall of 29.5% over twelve months.
It closed 46.47% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2008-03-05.