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 9 January 2002, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 19 September 2001
Silver closed at $4.703 per troy ounce on 9 January 2002, up $0.070 (1.51%) from the previous close of $4.633.
Notable session: highest close of the month.
Silver moved the opposite way to the session before it. Single-day reversals are common and usually mean little on their own — what matters is whether the next few sessions follow.
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
This close sat 6.00% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2000-08-31.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $4.550, making this a +3.36% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $4.70 per troy ounce on 9 January 2002. That is $0.07 higher than the previous close of $4.63, a move of 1.51%.
The silver price rose on 9 January 2002, gaining $0.07 (1.51%) against the previous session's close of $4.63.
At $4.70 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.15 on 9 January 2002. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 60.3 on 9 January 2002, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 60.3 ounces of silver.
A week before 9 January 2002, silver was around $4.53 per troy ounce, so the close of $4.70 is a gain of 3.9% over the week.
A month before 9 January 2002, silver was around $4.25 per troy ounce, so the close of $4.70 is a gain of 10.7% over the month.
It closed 6.00% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2000-08-31.
The most recent higher close was about 4 months earlier — 74 trading sessions before this one.