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How Much Silver Buys One Ounce of Gold? (5,000 Years, To Scale)

The gold-to-silver ratio, to scale: how many ounces of silver buy one ounce of gold — near 15-to-1 by law for centuries, floating free after 1873, down near 32 in 2011 and a record ~126 in the March 2020 panic.

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Data sources & references

01Gold/silver annual price ratio + New York gold price, 1791–2024 — MeasuringWorth (Officer & Williamson, "The Price of Gold, 1257 to Present")
02Modern daily spikes, 2000–2026 — COMEX gold (GC=F) and silver (SI=F) daily closes via the Yahoo Finance v8 chart API; daily ratio = gold close divided by silver close
03Industrial-demand share ("roughly half") — The Silver Institute / Metals Focus, World Silver Survey
04Music — "Between the Lines" by Ondrosik, CC0 1.0