natural gas historical prices

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What symbol is used to get a quote on current and historical natural gas prices. I get quotes on Yahoo Finance

I know how to get stock and mutual fund quotes, but am not sure about commodity prices.

Yahoo! Finance does not carry commodity price data. You should use NYMEX:

http://www.nymex.com/ng_fut_cso.aspx