The Currency BazaarOpen data
Open data — old Indian coins and notes
We publish what old Indian coins and notes actually sell for — from real completed sales recorded at independent shops, not asking prices. Every dataset below is free to use anywhere, with a link back.
The datasets
What old Indian coins and notes actually sell for
Real completed sale prices for every kind of Indian coin and note we can measure — not asking prices, and not a guess.
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The most valuable old Indian coins and notes
The genuinely old coins and notes that fetch the most, ranked by what they actually sold for — while most old money is still worth its face value.
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What the signature on a note is worth
What the signatory on a note is worth: the signature is really a date stamp, and the oldest fetch the most.
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What a gaddi of notes actually sells for
What a gaddi — a hundred notes — actually sells for, by denomination.
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What a fancy serial number is worth
Whether a fancy serial number is really worth more — measured, and often it is not.
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What a minting error is worth
What a minting error is worth — on the best-evidenced coin, the same as an ordinary one.
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How the numbers are made
Every price is a completed sale at an independent shop — asking prices and valuations are not counted, because anyone can ask anything. An identity enters the data only when several shops have sold it several times at prices that agree. That is why some pages say plainly “we don’t know” rather than hand you a confident wrong number.
And the thing worth holding onto: most old money is worth its face value. These datasets show what genuinely sells for more — so the “worth lakhs” pitch is broken by the figures themselves.
Using the data
It’s free. Wherever you use it, link back to the page — the figures move over time, so each file records the date up to which sales are counted, and each page hands you its own citation.
About The Currency Bazaar and who is behind it
Selling an old coin or note?
A real buyer never asks you for money — not a registration fee, not customs clearance, not GST, not a refundable deposit. Any buyer or “agent” who asks you to pay is running a fraud. Here the whole sale price stays yours: we take no commission on it.
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