Silver hits $30 milestone

After teasing collectors and investors for weeks, the price of silver closed over $30 a troy ounce for the first time since March 7, 1980.

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Jan 3, 2011

After teasing collectors and investors for weeks, the price of silver closed over $30 a troy ounce for the first time since March 7, 1980.

At the end of New York trading Dec. 28, silver was $30.297 a troy ounce.

“I believe that silver prices will jump by an even higher percentage in 2011 than they have for 2010,” said Pat Heller of Liberty Coin Service, Lansing, Mich.


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If he is right, that would put the precious metal above its Hunt Brothers’ $50 high in 2011. Though 2010 had not ended before this issue of Numismatic News went to press, silver was on course to finish the year up approximately 75 percent.

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Gold also dashed higher Dec. 28, breaking through the $1,400 level again, closing at $1,405.20. This is just a few dollars below the Dec. 6 record of $1,415.30.

In 2010 gold rose by nearly 30 percent.

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