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The price of gold topped $3,500 per troy ounce for the first time in history on Tuesday, the latest milestone in an especially strong 2025 that has seen the metal gain some 35 percent while outpacing both stock indexes and major cryptocurrencies.
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Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Gold prices have jumped from $1,800 a troy ounce at the start of 2022 to more than $3,400 today.
—Rachel Barber, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Gold traded at $3,460 a troy ounce as of Friday afternoon.
—John Towfighi, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2025
Over time, fiscal policies have created a sharp divergence in total purchasing power between $1 and a troy ounce of gold.
—Marc Guberti, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2025
Most actively traded gold futures for December delivery slid 1.7% to $1,944.70 a troy ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
—Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2020
During the classical gold standard era—from 1879 to 1914 in the US—one troy ounce of gold fetched $21.
—Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, 3 July 2019
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Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Gold prices have jumped from $1,800 a troy ounce at the start of 2022 to more than $3,400 today.
—Rachel Barber, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Gold traded at $3,460 a troy ounce as of Friday afternoon.
—John Towfighi, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2025
Over time, fiscal policies have created a sharp divergence in total purchasing power between $1 and a troy ounce of gold.
—Marc Guberti, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2025
Most actively traded gold futures for December delivery slid 1.7% to $1,944.70 a troy ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
—Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2020
During the classical gold standard era—from 1879 to 1914 in the US—one troy ounce of gold fetched $21.
—Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, 3 July 2019
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“Troy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/troy. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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troy
adjective
: expressed in troy weight
Medical Definition
troy
adjective
: expressed in troy weight
a troy ounce
Geographical Definition
Troy
geographical name
1
or Ilium
or Troja
ˈtrō-jə 
ancient city in northwestern Asia Minor in Troas southwest of the Dardanelles see also trojan entry 1 sense 1
-yə
2
city in southeastern Michigan north of Detroit population 80,980
3
city in eastern New York on the Hudson River north-northeast of Albany population 50,129
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