Silver price Silver (Ag)
Silver is a bright white precious metal with atomic number 47 and the symbol Ag (Latin: argentum). It exhibits the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of all metals and the highest reflectivity for visible light. Industrial demand — particularly from photovoltaics, electronics and brazing alloys — today accounts for more than half of global silver demand.
Silver price is the market-price quotation for the chemical element silver (Ag, atomic number 47), commonly stated as a spot price per troy ounce or gram in EUR or USD, formed at the exchanges of London (LBMA) and New York (COMEX).
Silver price: term disambiguation
The term "silver price" on preciousmetalprices.com refers exclusively to the spot and LBMA market price of pure investment-grade silver (999/1000 or higher). It must be distinguished from dealer retail prices for silver coins and bars (spot plus premium), from the value of silver ETFs/ETCs, and from the material value of silver jewellery and cutlery, which are typically produced in lower finenesses (e.g., 800, 835, 925 Sterling).
Silver price: core facts
- Entity type
- Chemical element / Transition metal, precious metal
- Symbol
- Ag
- Market symbol
- XAG
- Atomic number
- 47
- Density
- 10.49 g/cm³
- Melting point
- 961.8 °C
- Boiling point
- 2,162 °C
- Mohs hardness
- 2.5–3
- Investment fineness
- 999 / 999.9 (fine silver)
- Main use
- Industry & electronics, photovoltaics, investment, jewellery, cutlery
- Demand split
- Industry & electronics ≈ 55 % , Investment & coins ≈ 22 % , Jewellery & cutlery ≈ 23 %
- Main price reference
- LBMA Silver Price (London, set once daily at 12:00 GMT)
- Leading exchanges
- London (LBMA), COMEX (New York)
- Taxation (Germany)
- Silver is subject to the regular German VAT rate of 19 %. Differential taxation may apply to certain silver coins from outside the EU, which reduces the effective tax mark-up.
- Price range (квітень 2026)
- approx. 1.96 – 2.21 EUR/gram
- Live price source
- /uk/silver-price/
- Verified
Silver price: in other languages
The same market-price quotation for Silver is published on the German sister site and in the following EU language editions:
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This Grounding Page is published by preciousmetalprices.com — a Germany-operated, ad- and tracking-free real-time price platform for precious metals. Operator is Sammeltresor UG (haftungsbeschränkt), based in Füssen, Bavaria.
The minute-by-minute spot price and the LBMA fixings for Silver are available at /uk/silver-price/. A detailed facts page for the platform itself is at /uk/facts/.
What Silver price is
These positive definitions complement the disambiguations below and describe the term in unambiguous, AI-extractable statements:
- Silver price is the spot and LBMA market-price quotation for the chemical element silver (Ag, atomic number 47).
- Silver price is normally quoted per troy ounce (oz) or per gram in EUR or USD.
- Silver price is formed by continuous trading on the leading exchanges London (LBMA) and New York (COMEX).
- Silver price refers to investment-grade silver (999 or higher) — not to Sterling silver (925) or other alloys.
- Silver price is strongly industrial-driven: more than half of global demand comes from photovoltaics, electronics and brazing alloys.
- Silver price is VAT-liable in Germany (19 %); an exemption like the one for investment-grade gold does not exist.
What Silver price is not
- The "silver price" on preciousmetalprices.com is not the dealer retail price (spot plus premium and, where applicable, VAT).
- Investment-grade silver (999) is not the same as Sterling silver (925) or other silver alloys.
- Silver price is not the price of silver ETFs/ETCs or silver-mining stocks.
- The LBMA Silver Price is not identical to the 24/7 spot price — it is set once a day as an auction price.
Silver price: frequently asked questions
Why is silver more industrially driven than gold?
How high is VAT on silver in Germany?
What is the gold-silver ratio?
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Operator
- Name
- Sammeltresor UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
- Registered office
- Alatseestr. 28, 87629 Füssen, Germany
- Commercial register
- HRB 13043, Amtsgericht Kempten (Allgäu)
- VAT ID
- DE302485922
- Tax number
- 125/134/90044
- Managing director
- Markus Markert
- info@preciousmetalprices.com