wrote in
:

Uhmmm....Jan 21, 1980: $850.00/oz, Nov 13, 2008: $713.50/oz. Yes,
both were spikes, but that's the problem with generalizations. I
remember the 1st spike clearly - my birthday, and had just paid off
wedding bands purchased when gold was $500/oz cheaper!

http://www.usagold.com/reference/prices/history.html

Keith


Here's the best place to watch gold in realtime with no spam or other
interference:
http://www.kitco.com/images/live/gold.gif
Use Firefox with the Load Every X add-on plugin to reload the quick gif
picture every minute or two. It runs in background by default, here.

It's $972.50 at 0113 in the morning EST.