Real value, not the viral one

₹10 coin value — is it really ₹3 lakh?

The ₹10 coin carries a rumour of its own, and it is worth addressing first, because the fraud often opens by telling you your coin is about to become worthless.

The ₹10 coin in particular

The ₹10 coin has not been banned. The RBI has issued it in more than a dozen designs and has publicly reiterated that all of them are legal tender and must be accepted in transactions. It had to say so because shopkeepers were refusing them, suspecting the unfamiliar designs were fake.

That rumour and the “worth lakhs” claim work as a pair. First you are told the coin is being withdrawn, so you should get rid of it; then that it is secretly valuable, so you should sell it to a particular person. Both halves are false, and they arrive from the same direction.

The ₹10 pieces with genuine collector interest are the older commemoratives, not the bimetallic coin in circulation now. We have found too few completed sales of those special versions to quote a range, so this page prints none; the completed sales we do have are listed further down.

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