Silver Price History

Silver price milestones

Silver’s history is bracketed by two famous runs at $50: the 1980 spike, when the Hunt brothers’ attempt to corner the market briefly drove it near $50 before a crash, and April 2011, when it touched $49 in the post-crisis metals boom. Between and after those peaks it spent long years ranging between roughly $15 and $25.

That four-decade ceiling finally gave way in late 2025, when surging industrial demand — led by solar — and investment flows pushed silver to fresh records above $50. Its history shows why traders respect the metal: silver spends years asleep, then compresses a decade of movement into months.

Reading silver performance

The table above summarises how the Silver price has moved over each window using open, high, and low values, with the percentage change from the start of the period to now. Short windows reflect recent volatility, while the 1-year and 5-year rows show the longer-term trend. Historical performance is descriptive, not predictive — it summarises the past rather than forecasting the future.

For the live price and what drives it, see the Silver overview, or open the interactive silver chart. Nothing here is financial advice — see our disclaimer.