Prohibited & Restricted Items Policy

• Counterfeit currency of any kind, era, or country — including “collector copies” of banknotes without permanent COPY/REPLICA markings. Possession and sale of counterfeits is criminal in virtually every jurisdiction.
• Unmarked reproductions: replica coins or notes that are not permanently and conspicuously marked as copies (for numismatic replicas sold to US buyers, marking must satisfy the Hobby Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. §2101).
• Stolen items, and items subject to theft or loss reports from registries, museums, or grading-service databases.
• Antiquities without lawful export status — including Indian antiquities (items of Indian origin over 100 years old located in India) offered for export contrary to the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972, and material removed from any source country in breach of its patrimony laws.
• Items whose sale would breach sanctions (UN, EU, UK, US OFAC, Indian law) — including material of North Korean origin and transactions involving listed persons or comprehensively sanctioned territories.
• Altered items sold as genuine: tooled, re-engraved, added mintmarks, doctored dates, or notes with altered serials/signatures, unless fully disclosed as altered.
• Equipment or instructions for producing counterfeit currency.
• Anything unrelated to numismatics, exonumia, or philately-adjacent paper (this is a specialist marketplace).

• Marked reproductions and museum copies: permitted only in the Reproductions category, described as replicas in the title, with the permanent marking photographed.
• Current legal tender: collectible examples (special serials, errors, uncut sheets lawfully released) may be listed where trade in them is lawful in both the seller's and buyer's countries; bulk trading of circulating notes at a premium is not permitted.
• Ancient coins: require stated provenance to the extent known; imports into restricted destinations (e.g., US MOU categories, EU Regulation 2019/880 items) are flagged and may be blocked at checkout by destination.
• Indian items over 100 years old: domestic (India) delivery only, flagged on the listing.
• Error notes and coins: genuine mint/press errors only; post-mint damage presented as error is misdescription.
• Gold and high-bullion-content items: permitted as numismatic items; sellers and buyers are responsible for local bullion-trade rules; AML thresholds in our AML & KYC Policy apply.
• Items containing regulated materials (e.g., an ivory-handled presentation case): CITES documentation required or the organic component removed from sale.

• Automated and manual review at listing time; export-restricted material is flagged before publication.
• Community reporting — every listing has a report link; reports are reviewed within 2 business days.
• Violations lead to listing removal, and depending on severity: warning, vendor suspension, permanent ban, payout freeze, and referral to law enforcement, customs, or grading services.
• Good-faith mistakes happen in numismatics — a seller who promptly corrects an honest error faces no penalty. Concealment is what ends accounts.

Restrictions bind buyers too: do not attempt to buy export-restricted items for delivery to ineligible addresses, use freight-forwarders to defeat export flags, or import material your country restricts. Orders that would break these rules are cancelled and repeated attempts close accounts.