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Coin and banknote identifier for iPhone and Android

Money youforgot you had

The jar on the shelf. The handful in the car door. Point your phone at it and every coin comes back named, dated and priced, in the one shot.

iOS 17 and up on iPhone, Android 8 and up on Android. 117,850 coins and banknotes in the index, from 358 countries and territories. See how it reads one.

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Morgan Dollar, United States

Morgan Dollar

United States, 1878–1921, Silver

Estimated value

$69to$101

Added to your collection

Three seconds, start to number.

No lightbox, no jeweller's scale, no reference book open on the table. The phone in your pocket and enough light to read the coin by is the whole kit.

  1. Step 1: Point

    Hold the coin flat under whatever light you have. One side is enough. Flip it and Buck reads both faces, and still counts it as one coin.

  2. Step 2: Snap

    Buck reads the country, the denomination, the year and the mint mark off the metal, then matches them against the index.

  3. Step 3: Value

    You get a range in your own currency, the record it matched against, and the reason it is worth that. Then the coin lands in your collection.

Your index starts grey.

Every coin and banknote Buck knows is already in there, sitting in greyscale. Scan one and it turns colour, permanently, with its year, its metal and what it is worth. Nobody fills the whole page.

117,850
records in the index
65,475
coins
52,375
banknotes
358
countries and territories

Values you can repeat out loud.

It is easy to make an app that tells everyone their change is treasure. Buck would rather be the one you believe the day it says two dollars.

A morning in the drawer3 coins
  • Buffalo Nickel1913, Copper-nickel$8.00 to $41.00
  • Mercury Dime1916–1945, Silver$6.01 to $9.97
  • Walking Liberty Half1916–1947, Silver$29.25 to $43.53
Collection value$43.26to$94.50
  • A range, never a single number

    A coin's worth depends on its grade, and Buck is looking at a photo. So it prints the band the coin trades in, with the low end honest.

  • Spendable money is worth what it spends

    A circulating euro coin is legal tender at its face, so Buck will never price it below that, no matter what a price guide says.

  • Mint state says mint state

    When the only figure available is for an uncirculated example, the card says so instead of quietly pretending your pocket change is flawless.

  • An unsure answer is an unsure answer

    If the photo and the record disagree, wrong metal colour or wrong era, Buck drops the match rather than showing you a number it does not believe.

Everything a coin will tell you.

Composition, weight, diameter, mintage, the design on both faces and the reason it was struck. Buck shows the facts a price is built on, alongside the price.

Tip the whole handful out and point once

Every coin in the frame gets named and priced on its own, then counted into a single total. No lining anything up.

Paper counts too

Old guilders, pesetas, a Turner twenty. Buck reads notes with the same eye it reads metal, and files them in the same collection.

What it shows, and why it was struck

Every record carries two lines on what is actually on the coin and the reason it exists. Written once from the reference, never guessed at.

Priced where you live

Values arrive converted to your home currency, so nobody has to do sums to work out whether the thing in their hand is worth a coffee.

Mintage, metal, millimetres

Composition, weight, diameter, edge, how many were struck and how many varieties exist. The facts the price is built on.

A shelf that adds itself up

Every find lands in your collection, sorted by country, with a running total underneath. The pile in the drawer finally has a number.

Before you download.

Anything else, write to support@getbuckapp.com.

Buck reads the country, denomination, year and mint mark, then matches that against 117,850 records. When the photo and the record disagree it declines the match instead of guessing, so a blank answer means "take another shot", not "worthless".

Money youforgot you had

It has been in that drawer the whole time. One photo tells you what it is.

Free to browse the index and keep a collection. iOS 17 or Android 8 and up.