Highest so far that month
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This page is a historical record of the silver price in 9 October 2017, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 25 September 2017
Silver closed at $16.92 per troy ounce on 9 October 2017, up $0.182 (1.09%) from the previous close of $16.73.
This close extended a run of 3 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.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This close sat 65.18% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-04-29.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $17.32, making this a -2.36% move year on year.
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Silver closed at $16.92 per troy ounce on 9 October 2017. That is $0.18 higher than the previous close of $16.73, a move of 1.09%.
The silver price rose on 9 October 2017, gaining $0.18 (1.09%) against the previous session's close of $16.73.
At $16.92 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.54 on 9 October 2017. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 75.8 on 9 October 2017, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 75.8 ounces of silver.
A month before 9 October 2017, silver was around $18.03 per troy ounce, so the close of $16.92 is a loss of 6.2% over the month.
This close was session 3 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 65.18% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-04-29.