Gold coins can be pledged for a loan, but specific rules apply, and they trip up a lot of people. You get quick funds without selling the coins. The catch is that only certain coins qualify, and there is a weight cap. Only bank-issued coins of at least 22-carat purity are accepted, up to 50 grams per borrower, at up to 75% of their assessed value. Privately minted or foreign coins do not count. This guide explains the gold coin loan rules and how to apply. A Gold Loan from IIFL Finance covers eligible coins.

Silver loans are new. From April 2026, regulated lenders can accept silver as collateral, so rates are still settling and vary by lender. As a secured loan, a silver loan should cost less than an unsecured personal loan, though a touch more than the most established gold loans in some cases. What you pay turns on the lender, the loan size and the tenure. This guide breaks down silver loan interest rate basics, what drives the number, the charges beyond interest, and how to get a fair deal. For comparison, a Gold Loan from IIFL Finance works on similar lines.

If you plan to pledge silver, the LTV ratio decides how much you actually get. Under the RBI rules effective 1 April 2026, silver follows the same tiered structure as gold: up to 85% of the silver's value for loans up to INR 2.5 lakh, 80% up to INR 5 lakh, and 75% above that. The value is set on market-linked benchmarks, and there are weight caps. This guide explains the silver loan LTV ratio with a worked example, what silver qualifies, and how repayment type affects it. A Gold Loan from IIFL Finance uses the same tiers.

Two bangles can weigh exactly the same and fetch very different loan amounts. The reason sits inside the metal. Almost no jewellery is pure gold. It is an alloy, gold mixed with copper, silver or zinc for strength, and the share of actual gold in that mix decides what a lender will offer. This guide explains gold alloy composition and loan value in plain terms: what the carat numbers really mean, how lenders test and convert purity to a 22-carat benchmark, and which parts of your jewellery add nothing to the loan. A Gold Loan from IIFL Finance values the gold content transparently.

Walk into three branches with the same 40 grams of bank coins and you may hear three different rates. None of them is wrong. Each lender prices from its own cost of funds, risk view and competition on that street. What you control is knowing why the numbers differ and which levers move yours down. This gold coin loan interest rate comparison covers the honest range, the bank-versus-NBFC trade, the factors that swing your quote, the charges hiding behind the headline, and the moves that earn a better deal. A Gold Loan from IIFL Finance prices coins on the same transparent footing as jewellery.

A hallmark does not add a rupee to your gold's value. What it does is prove the purity that creates the value, and that proof changes how smoothly your loan goes. This guide explains the gold hallmarking impact on loan value honestly: what BIS marks and the HUID mean, how purity drives the RBI's valuation formula, and how a Gold Loan from IIFL Finance treats unhallmarked pieces.

A gold loan needs your gold physically valued, so no app can finish the whole job. What a good gold loan app does is everything around that moment: apply, upload KYC, book a branch slot or doorstep visit, track the loan, repay, and close. This guide covers how online applications work end to end, the features worth checking, and how safe the process is, using the Gold Loan journey at IIFL Finance as the model.

Venkata Rao grows chillies near Guntur, and this season the drying-yard labour wanted their payment two weeks before the traders would pay him. His gold was already pledged from last season. What his house did have was silver, his wife's heavy anklets and a trunk of old ornaments, and for the first time, that was enough: a silver loan in Andhra Pradesh is now a regular, RBI-regulated product, brought into the same rulebook as gold loans from April 2026. This guide covers what a silver loan is and how it works in AP, how interest rates are settling, how the IBJA-linked valuation fixes your amount, which silver qualifies, the application steps, and how silver compares with gold as collateral, with a Gold Loan from IIFL Finance as the sister product.

Rekha manages the house in Muzaffarpur while her husband works at a Ludhiana factory, and this June his money order ran three weeks late just as the school demanded both children's fees together. The village moneylender quoted his usual ruinous terms for her silver hansuli. A bank-regulated alternative now exists: a silver loan in Bihar became a formal, RBI-governed product in April 2026, with the same protections gold borrowers get. Below: how the product works, the rate picture and the LTV table that caps your amount, who qualifies and with what papers, the application steps, and the silver-or-gold question for Bihar households, alongside the Gold Loan from IIFL Finance that many families already know.

Gurmeet runs eight buffaloes outside Moga, and the feed dealer wanted his winter khal-binola payment a full month before the milk society would settle her dues. Her gold was earmarked for her daughter's wedding and not to be touched; her silver, heavy karas, pajebs, an old thali set, had never counted as loan material. Since April 2026 it does: a silver loan in Punjab is now a regulated product under the RBI's gold-and-silver lending rules, priced off a national benchmark rather than a pawnbroker's mood. This guide covers what a silver loan is, the LTV limits that decide how much you can borrow, how interest rates are shaping up, eligible silver and documents, the application steps, and the silver-versus-gold choice, with the Gold Loan from IIFL Finance as the familiar benchmark.