Real or fake

Is an old coin selling website real or fake?

A fair question, and one worth asking before you hand anyone your photos or your phone number. Here is how to check any site in this business, including this one.

The one test that settles it

Everything else is detail. A genuine buyer never asks the seller for money. Not registration, not GST, not TDS, not "RBI clearance", not a refundable deposit, not insurance, not a courier charge. Money moves one way only — from the buyer to you.

If a site or a "buyer" asks you to pay anything before you are paid, it is a scam. It does not matter how official the paperwork looks or whose name is on it. The Reserve Bank of India has stated in writing that it "does not deal in such matters and never seeks charges/ commissions of any sort" and has authorised nobody to collect on its behalf.

Five checks you can run in two minutes

Is there a registered company behind it? Look for a full legal name, a CIN and a GSTIN on the site. A CIN can be looked up free on mca.gov.in. Most sites in this niche have none of this.
Does it publish a real address? Not a city name — an address.
Is your phone number about to become public? On classifieds it is, and that is how the calls start. A site that keeps contact inside its own chat is protecting you from exactly that.
Is there a stated commission, refund and renewal position? Vagueness here is the tell.
Does it promise you lakhs? A site that leads with "your ₹2 coin is worth ₹3 lakh" is not valuing your coin. It is selling you a feeling, and the fee comes next.

Run those checks on us

It would be a poor page that told you to check and then did not answer. The Currency Bazaar is a brand of Numismatic Coin Collections Private Limited, CIN U52599UP2020PTC134827, GSTIN 09AAHCN1719P2ZW, registered in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. The company has traded in this business since 2017.

Your phone number is never shown. Buyers and sellers talk only in chat on this site.
Every message is scanned for the six patterns this fraud is built from, and you see a warning on the message before you reply.
0% commission. When your coin sells, the buyer pays you and we take nothing from it.
A buyer cannot ask you for money here — and if one tries, the message is flagged.
The fee is one-time and non-refundable, and it says so on the pricing page before you pay.

What a real marketplace cannot promise

Be suspicious of certainty. Nobody can promise your coin will sell, or at what price. What an honest site can do is show you the real range before you list, show you what similar items actually sold for, and keep the conversation somewhere it can be checked.

A useful habit: search the site name plus the word "complaint" or "fake" before you deal with anyone. Then read who is answering — a company, or nobody.

Check us the way we just told you to

The plans, the commission, the refund position — all stated before you pay anything.

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Last updated: 2026-08-15