Top 10 Highest Valued Currencies In The World: Did you know that the US dollar, said to be the most widely traded currency in the world and one that is popularly used as a reserve currency, is not the world’s highest valued currency. In fact, with a single US dollar, you can buy just 0.31 units of the world’s highest valued currency – the Kuwaiti Dinar! Even the Euro doesn’t feature in the top 5 ranks! So which are the top 10 highest valued currencies and what is the Indian rupee’s value viz. the US dollar? This ranking is based solely on the number of units of US dollar you can buy with one unit of a currency. It does not take into account what one can purchase with the 1 unit of the local currency in either country or outside. Let’s take a look: