Distance from the record
This close sat 67.05% 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 9 May 2017, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Lowest closing price since 30 December 2016
Silver closed at $16.01 per troy ounce on 9 May 2017, down $0.191 (1.18%) from the previous close of $16.20.
Notable session: lowest close of the month.
This close extended a run of 6 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 67.05% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-04-29.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $17.07, making this a -6.22% move year on year.
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Silver closed at $16.01 per troy ounce on 9 May 2017. That is $0.19 lower than the previous close of $16.20, a move of -1.18%.
The silver price fell on 9 May 2017, losing $0.19 (1.18%) against the previous session's close of $16.20.
At $16.01 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.51 on 9 May 2017. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 75.9 on 9 May 2017, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 75.9 ounces of silver.
A week before 9 May 2017, silver was around $16.77 per troy ounce, so the close of $16.01 is a loss of 4.5% over the week.
A month before 9 May 2017, silver was around $18.13 per troy ounce, so the close of $16.01 is a loss of 11.7% over the month.
This close was session 6 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 67.05% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-04-29.