I created a free easy way to get the price of gold

Free, comprehensive historical gold price data spanning 768 years (1258-2025)

1,678 records from British Official Prices through modern futures markets

📥 Download Data

Latest dataset: data/latest.csv (automatically updated daily)

Format: CSV with columns: date, price, currency

📊 Interactive Data Source Timeline

Visual representation of our data sources and their coverage periods

🔄 Merge Strategy

Priority Order: When dates overlap, we use the following priority (highest first):

1. Yahoo Finance - Daily data, 2025-present (highest priority, most granular current data)
2. World Bank - Monthly data, 1960-2024
3. MeasuringWorth London - Annual data, 1718-1959
4. MeasuringWorth British - Annual data, 1257-1717 (fills oldest historical gaps)

This provides comprehensive historical gold price data spanning nearly 800 years (1257-2025) with increasing granularity over time.

📚 Source Attribution

• British Official Price (1258-1717): MeasuringWorth (annual)
  Citation: Lawrence H. Officer and Samuel H. Williamson, 'The Price of Gold, 1257-1945,' MeasuringWorth, 2025
• London Market Price (1718-1959): MeasuringWorth (annual)
  Citation: Lawrence H. Officer and Samuel H. Williamson, 'The Price of Gold, 1718-2024,' MeasuringWorth, 2025
• World Bank Commodity Prices (1960-2024): World Bank Pink Sheet (monthly)
  Gold prices in USD per troy ounce
• Yahoo Finance (2025-present): Gold Futures (GC=F) (daily)
  Current gold futures prices in USD per troy ounce