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Most articles about old Indian coins quote an asking price — what somebody hoped to get. This page is the other thing: what buyers actually paid, on sales that completed and shipped, with the date each one happened and a link to the listing it sold from.
It updates every day.
Every line below is a sale that completed and shipped. Not an asking price, not an estimate — what a buyer actually paid, with the date it happened. Each one links to the listing it sold from, so you can check it.
Small change that sold for real money
One coin or one note each — no bundles, no sealed packs, nothing that needed a collection to begin with. The kind of thing that turns up in a drawer.
The highest sales overall
Everything, including sealed bundles and complete sets. Where a line shows a quantity, the large number is what the whole lot fetched.
How to read this. Where a line shows a quantity, the big number is what the whole lot fetched and the smaller one is the price per piece. A sealed bundle of 1,000 ten-rupee notes is not the same thing as one ten-rupee note, and the difference matters.
A high price on one example does not make every coin of that year valuable. Condition, serial number, mint mark and grading decide almost all of it. Our price guides show the typical range for each type, not just the record.
Updated 31 August 2026. This page refreshes daily.
Before you check your drawer
A record price is a record because it is unusual. The 1996 five-rupee coin that fetched ₹31,999 was a first strike in exceptional condition; an ordinary one from the same year is worth its face value and nothing more. Condition, serial number, mint mark and grading decide almost everything.
Our price guides show the typical range for each type, built from completed sales rather than asking prices, and where we hold fewer than 30 sales for something we publish the sample size and no price instead of guessing. If you want to know what a specific year and denomination is worth, start with coin values by denomination.
If you have one to sell
You can list it yourself on The Currency Bazaar — from ₹99 to start, and no commission on what you sell. You set the price, and buyers message you on the platform.
CoinBazzar has run since 2015 and is operated by Numismatic Coin Collections Private Limited, Meerut. Journalists and researchers are welcome to quote any figure on this page; a link back to the listing is appreciated so readers can check it too.
