Highest so far that year
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
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This page is a historical record of the silver price in 8 January 2010, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 4 December 2009
Silver closed at $18.46 per troy ounce on 8 January 2010, up $0.125 (0.68%) from the previous close of $18.33.
This close extended a run of 5 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.
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
This close sat 10.77% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-05.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $11.07, making this a +66.71% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $18.46 per troy ounce on 8 January 2010. That is $0.13 higher than the previous close of $18.33, a move of 0.68%.
The silver price rose on 8 January 2010, gaining $0.13 (0.68%) against the previous session's close of $18.33.
At $18.46 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.59 on 8 January 2010. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 61.7 on 8 January 2010, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 61.7 ounces of silver.
A week before 8 January 2010, silver was around $16.18 per troy ounce, so the close of $18.46 is a gain of 14.1% over the week.
A year before 8 January 2010, silver was around $11.07 per troy ounce. The close of $18.46 therefore represents a rise of 66.7% over twelve months.
This close was session 5 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 10.77% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2008-03-05.