10 Paise Commemorative Coin Value (1974–1982)

Commemorative 10 Paise coins were struck for an event, an anniversary or a person, and most were sold in mint sets rather than released into circulation. That is why they carry catalogue values while ordinary coins of the same face value usually do not.

Catalogued values by year and mint

Year Mint Issued for Worn Uncirculated
1975 Calcutta (Kolkatta Mint) Equality Development Peace (F.A.O) Issued During Women's Year ₹75 ₹1,000
1974 Hyderabad Mint Planned Families : Food For All ₹75 ₹1,000
1974 Hyderabad Mint Planned Families : Food For All ₹75 ₹1,000
1982 Calcutta (Kolkatta Mint) World Food Day (F.a.o Series) ₹75 ₹250
1976 Bombay (Mumbai Mint) Food and Work For All (F.A.O Series) ₹25 ₹200
1976 Calcutta (Kolkatta Mint) Food and Work For All (F.A.O Series) ₹25 ₹200
1977 Bombay (Mumbai Mint) Save for Development (F.A.O Series) ₹25 ₹200
1976 Bombay (Mumbai Mint) Food and Work For All (F.A.O Series) ₹25 ₹200
1976 Calcutta (Kolkatta Mint) Food and Work For All (F.A.O Series) ₹25 ₹200
1977 Bombay (Mumbai Mint) Save For Development (F.A.O Series) ₹25 ₹200
1977 Calcutta (Kolkatta Mint) Save For Development (F.A.O Series) ₹25 ₹200
1982 Hyderabad Mint World Food Day (F.a.o Series) ₹25 ₹200
1978 Hyderabad Mint Food and Shelter For All (F.A.O Series) ₹5 ₹150
1979 Hyderabad Mint Happy Child – Nation's Pride (F.A.O) International Year of the Child ₹5 ₹150
1978 Hyderabad Mint Food and Shelter For All (F.A.O Series) ₹5 ₹150
1975 Bombay (Mumbai Mint) Equality Development Peace (F.A.O) Issued During Women's Year ₹15 ₹100
1975 Calcutta (Kolkatta Mint) Equality Development Peace (F.A.O) Issued During Women's Year ₹100
1976 Bombay (Mumbai Mint) Food And Work For All (F.A.O Series) ₹100
1976 Calcutta (Kolkatta Mint) Food And Work For All (F.A.O Series) ₹100
1977 Bombay (Mumbai Mint) Save For Development (F.A.O Series) ₹100
1977 Calcutta (Kolkatta Mint) Save For Development (F.A.O Series) ₹100
1979 Hyderabad Mint Happy Child – Nation's Pride (F.A.O) International Year Of The Child ₹5 ₹100
1980 Hyderabad Mint Rural Women's Advancement ₹5 ₹75
1979 Bombay (Mumbai Mint) Happy Child – Nation's Pride (F.A.O) International Year Of The Child ₹5 ₹75
1979 Calcutta (Kolkatta Mint) Happy Child – Nation's Pride (F.A.O) International Year Of The Child ₹5 ₹75

Showing the 25 highest-valued of 51 priced varieties.

Uncirculated figures are the upper end. The same coin worn from circulation is worth a fraction of it — grade moves these numbers more than anything else on the page.

Which mints struck it

Bombay (Mumbai Mint) · Calcutta (Kolkatta Mint) · Hyderabad Mint

The mint mark sits directly under the year: a diamond or dot for Mumbai, a star for Hyderabad, no mark at all for Kolkata, and a solid dot for Noida. The same denomination and year can be common from one mint and genuinely scarce from another, so read the mark before comparing against any price.

Issues in this series

Planned Families : Food For All · Equality Development Peace (F.A.O) Issued During Women's Year · Food and Work For All (F.A.O Series) · Save for Development (F.A.O Series) · Food and Shelter For All (F.A.O Series) · Happy Child – Nation's Pride (F.A.O) International Year of the Child · Rural Women's Advancement · World Food Day (F.A.O Series) · Save For Development (F.A.O Series) · Food And Work For All (F.A.O Series) · Happy Child – Nation's Pride (F.A.O) International Year Of The Child · Ix Asian Games · World Food Day (F.a.o Series)

The theme printed on the coin is the fastest way to place it. If yours carries a name or an event, it belongs on this list; if it carries the standard design for its series, it is an ordinary circulating coin.

What actually decides the price

  1. Condition. Uncirculated and never handled against worn from circulation is routinely a tenfold difference on the same coin.
  2. Mint and year together. Neither on its own identifies a coin.
  3. Striking errors. Doubling, off-centre strikes, wrong planchets and die cracks are valued separately from the ordinary issue and can far exceed it.
  4. Whether it came from a sealed set. A coin that never entered circulation is a different object from one that did.

Before you compare against any figure online

A catalogue value is a reference for a stated grade, not a promise of what a specific coin will fetch. It answers one question honestly — is this ordinary, or is it unusual — and for most coins in most pockets the answer is ordinary.