The Dow Priced in Silver or the Dow/Silver Ratio
This chart is updated every Saturday.
This chart is very similar to the Dow/Gold Ratio only instead of gold it is the price of the Dow in ounces of silver. As you can see, a very similar curve is produced. In January of 1980 the Dow/Silver Ratio reached a low of 18. In June of 2001 it hit a high of 2,554.
Data for the price of silver comes from the daily London Fix and is available on Kitco's website. Data for the Dow be found at Yahoo! Finance.