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The most valuable old Indian coins and notes

Most old Indian coins and notes are worth their face value. A small number genuinely sell for more — and here they are, ranked, from 740 completed sales. Not asking prices, and not a guess.

Ranked by what they actually sold for

The median of real completed sales for each. The range is the middle half (25th to 75th). Tap an item for every sale behind it.

Showing the top 30 of 50 — the full ranked list is in the file below.

And the money still in your pocket

Coins and notes still in circulation — ₹1, ₹2, ₹5, ₹10, however old they look — are worth exactly the value printed on them. Nobody pays lakhs for one.

What is kept off this list

This counts one coin or one note only. Bundles, fancy serial numbers and minting errors are kept out — a bundle's price belongs to the bundle, not to one note — and each has its own page:

• What a gaddi of notes actually sells for (8 identities)
• What a fancy serial number is worth (6)
• What a minting error is worth (3)

How this list is built

Every row has at least 8 completed sales, from 2 or more separate shops, at prices that agree. Asking prices are not counted. And only coins and notes that are genuinely old or out of circulation — a ₹2 coin still spent today never reaches this list, whatever one shop sold a scarce one for.

Take the data

The full ranked list, as a file: CSV · JSON

Cite it as: The Currency Bazaar, "The most valuable old Indian coins and notes", 740 completed sales. https://thecurrencybazaar.com/most-valuable-coins-notes

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