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At an April 2011 price of about $49 USD per troy ounce, silver is about 1/30th the price of gold. The ratio has varied from 1/15 to 1/100 in the past 100 years.
In 1980, the silver price rose to a peak for modern times of US$49.45 per troy ounce (TO) due to market manipulation of Nelson Bunker Hunt and Herbert Hunt inflation adjusted to 2011 this is approximately U$D150 per troy ounce. Some time after Silver Thursday, the price was back to $10/TO. From 2001 to 2010, the price moved from $4.37 to $20.19 (Average London US$/oz). According to the Silver Institute, silver's recent gains have greatly stemmed from a rise in investor interest and an increase in fabrication demand. In late April 2011, silver reached an all-time high of $49.76/TO.
In earlier times, silver has commanded much higher prices. In the early 15th century, the price of silver is estimated to have surpassed $1200 per ounce, based on 2011 dollars. The discovery of massive silver deposits in the New World during the succeeding centuries has caused the price to diminish greatly.
The price of silver is important in Judaic law. The lowest fiscal amount a Jewish court, or Beth Din, can convene to adjudicate a case over is a shova pruta (value of a Babylonian pruta coin). This is fixed at 1/8 of a gram of pure, unrefined silver, at market price.