The Complete Money Making Guide for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Money is tight in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, but the Nazis have conveniently left their cash scattered across every camp. This guide breaks down the most effective methods, from early-game looting to late-game farming loops, to help you fill your wallet and fund your adventure without emptying your sanity.

Core Money-Making Methods (Early Game Essentials)

Money's tight in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, but the Nazis have conveniently left their cash scattered across every camp. Here’s how to fill your wallet without emptying your sanity.

Loot Every Nazi Tent and Camp

Think of enemy camps as ATMs that fight back. Every tent, duffel bag, and officer’s coat cradles pesetas, so you’ll want to sweep them thoroughly. The trick is staying quiet - one alarm turns a profitable haul into a firefight, and firefights mean spending money on health kits later.

Officer tents (marked by red flags) are the real jackpot. A single one can drop $600+ thanks to map-table cash and lockboxes, while a full camp clear nets between $400–$700. You’ll find:

• Red lockboxes: Smash these with a weapon for ~$100 each
• Small lockboxes: Breakable for smaller rewards
• Duffels and drawers: Cash spawns randomly, especially in restricted zones like the Vatican main square

If you’re tired of crouching, grab the Wehrmacht Uniform from your first officer tent - it lets you loot openly without drawing suspicion. And don’t forget Focus mode: cash glows pale green, lockboxes glow amber, so you’ll spot them instantly.

Crack Safes for Big Payouts

Safes are scattered from the Vatican to the Valley of the Kings, and they’re stuffed with serious cash or rare Adventure Books. Most need four- or five-digit codes, but you won’t have to guess - Code Notes are always nearby.

Here’s where to look and what to punch in:

Location	Safe Code	Reward
Gizeh Nazi Compound Command Center (ground floor)	40926	Large cash sum
Valley of the Kings Workman’s vault	8463	High-value cache
Valley of the Kings Howard Carter-era cache	2596	Cash + book

Listen for metallic clicks while spinning the dial - that’s your audio cue. And always plan an exit route; guards don’t appreciate safe-crackers.

Win Boxing Matches for Quick Cash

Underground rings in the Vatican, Gizeh, and Sukhothai offer fistfuls of pesetas if you’ve got the fists. Each location has three champions, and the purse climbs with every win. Knock out all three in Sukhothai and you’ll walk away with nearly 1,000 currency.

Before the bell rings, you can wager up to 50 pesetas - win and you’ll pocket 250–300. Lose, and that money’s gone. The combat flow is simple: dodge, then counter. Don’t brawl; wait for the opening. If you find the Street Fighter book, it quietly adds a 10% bonus to every purse.

Some rings require disguises. Gizeh’s Knuckle-Duster Den needs the Blackshirt Uniform or Desert Labourer outfit, so gear up before you swing.

Stealth Pickpocketing and Petty Theft

When camps and rings feel like too much work, just steal pocket change. Civilians and officers carry 10–30 pesetas each, and you can lift it without any loading screens or high stakes.

Activate Focus and look for gold-tinted pockets - that’s your mark. Slow-walk behind your target, tap the prompt, and you’re done. If a guard sees you, you’ll enter a Search state, but it’s not a death sentence. Break line of sight or slip into a tent and they’ll give up.

The Sleight of Hand skill (under stealth upgrades) reduces detection chance, which means you can farm busy plazas with confidence. It’s low-risk, consistent income for when you’re saving up for that next whip upgrade.

Advanced Farming Strategies (Mid to Late Game)

Sell Duplicate Artifacts to Vendors

You'll end up with a lot of duplicate pottery shards and coins, but they aren't just inventory clutter. The game automatically stacks them with a little counter, and Antonio in Vatican City or Voss in Giza will buy them for pesetas. Common stuff like clay fragments goes for 5 pesetas each, while uncommon pieces like fibula pull 12. Rare sigil rings nab you 25, and very rare items like those miniature Fabergé eggs? Those sell for 60 pesetas a pop.

The trick is getting them to respawn. Dig spots come back after you leave the region and sleep somewhere else, which means you can fast-travel to Marshall College, crash on your office couch, and reset everything. A full sweep through Vatican, Giza, and Sukhothai usually nets three or four very-rare duplicates, so you're looking at roughly 200 pesetas per cycle. Not bad for archaeology.

Complete Radio Frequency Side Jobs

In Gizeh (and later in Sukhothai), Gina at the resistance tent will ask you to hunt down four red Wehrmacht transmission cards that enemy radiomen drop in their camps. Each one makes a soft chime when you grab it, so you'll know you're on track.

Handing over the full set gets you 250 pesetas, 500 XP, and a bonus treasure map. Gina also marks four reward crates on your map: one in ruins north of the Workers' Area, another west of the base, one along the road south of the Khafre Excavation Site, and the last on top of a water tower at the north end of that same excavation. It's a one-time deal per region, but the payout is worth the detour.

Photography Contracts for Steady Income

Your camera is always ready, and you can snap stelae photos anytime, but don't expect a peseta for them. No NPC actually pays for these shots - the reward is purely for completionists. Photographing all ten stelae adds sketches to your journal and bags you the 'They Belong in a Museum' achievement (or trophy), which is nice, but it won't fund your gear upgrades.

Farm Daily Recon Flights (End-Game Loop)

Once you're in the endgame, the fastest legitimate cash loop is replaying the Supply Flight sequence in Gizeh. Restart the mission from the main menu, and you'll find eleven sealed Luftwaffe crates that always spawn bank-notes. With the Scrounger bonus, each run pulls about 825 pesetas in roughly four minutes.

That math works out to around 12,375 pesetas per hour if you grind it. Just don't finish the mission by boarding the supply plane, or the auto-save will lock you out and you'll have to reload an older chapter. Grab the crates, then restart - simple as that.

Progression-Based Farming Routes

Early Game: Vatican Route (1,500–2,000 Pesetas/15 min)

Your first solid cash loop is in the Vatican, and it's surprisingly quick once you get the rhythm down. Start at the Swiss Guard Barracks where a few easy grabs net you $200 in under a minute - the Quartermaster's desk holds $100 , there's $40 on the weapons rack, and don't forget the $60 stashed in the locker row's shaving-kit soap dish.

Climb to the attic for an easy-pick trunk with $120 and sometimes a relic, then head to the roof-garden balcony for another $200 from the planter box's trowel ($100), stone bench under newspapers ($60), and gargoyle alcove ($40). From here, you can safely drop to the Library balcony with a roll, where the card catalogue's open drawer hides $60 and the spiral stair's brass globe holds $40.

The loop gets efficient once you nail the reset: whip-swing from the attic window back to the Barracks parapet, slide down the north ivy toward the Basilica, and re-enter. The interior and roof respawn every 90 seconds, which means you can clear $520 per cycle indefinitely. Every third run tends to drop an Ancient Relic worth $40–80, which you can fence at the Rome Hub or Vatican gift shop to push your hourly haul past $3,000 - enough to grab that 720 Lire combat manual way earlier than you'd expect.

Mid Game: Sukhothai & Gizeh Circuit (3,300 Pesetas/20 min)

Once you've got the Rebreather, it's time to graduate to the Sukhothai and Gizeh circuit, which triples your earnings. The Hidden Pyramid loop pulls $3,360 per 12-minute sweep if you're thorough: snatch the $500 elephant statue, $125 jade cicada, silver betel box, and bronze armband, then climb the photo tower for the $575 golden candelabrum before raiding the commander's tent for its $555 leather map case, $100 crimson Buddha, and $320 Khmer coin necklace.

The catch is items only respawn once per in-game day, so you'll want to sleep at a campfire between runs for a fast reset. While you're waiting for Sukhothai to reset, hop over to Gizeh Sub-Level 1 for a quick $1,235 in 3–4 minutes: grab the entrance satchel ($200), water-jar coin purse ($185), lantern-room vase ($100), ladder-crate ($100), collapsed passage strongbox ($100), balance-beam plank ($350), table pouch ($100), and workbench stash ($100).

Guards here are trivial to avoid if you bring a wrench or torch to sprint past them - they won't follow you past the beam room if you keep moving. Don't forget to sell your Fieldwork Notes at the Sphinx merchant for extra cash, then fast-travel reset via the Tomb of Khentkawes lift and you're back in business.

Late Game: Himalaya & Berlin Run (5,000+ Pesetas/25 min)

The 'Berlin Run' is a bit misleading since Berlin has no native cash spawns, so you're really farming elsewhere to spend there. In the Himalayas, the Frozen Supply Drop inside the half-buried C-47 fuselage gives you a $250 bundle and a $50 pouch. You'll need to shoot the hanging lantern to melt the ice wall, then whip-swing the cargo net and crouch-walk through the cracked cargo door to pry the frozen crate - no tool required.

For Berlin's gift shop, you have to farm cash from earlier chapters first. Your best bet is the Vatican donation-box loop using code 1-1-3-3 for $50–75 per box, or the Himalaya Ahnenerbe camp locked boxes with code 4-5-1 that drop 30–40 rupees each - just reload the checkpoint to farm them. Once you've bought every single item in Berlin's hub, the donation box appears and accepts infinite money, though it gives zero reward - it's a pure money sink for when you're swimming in pesetas anyway.

The Berlin gift shop does have two unique purchases worth mentioning: the Advanced Disguise Primer and European Relics Field Guide, each costing 500 adventure points, so you'll want to save up for those even if the farming route feels backwards.

Exploits and Advanced Techniques

Punch-Reset Looting Exploit (Still Working)

You want fast cash without breaking the game's economy too much? The punch-reset loop is your answer. Here is how it shakes out: you crack open a cash container, pocket the pesetas, throw one punch to force an auto-save, then immediately reload that save. The container pops back like you never touched it, but your wallet remembers the loot.

This trick works on any fixed stash - desk drawers, cabinets, those Nazi footlockers you keep bumping into - and one punch is all it takes to make that checkpoint circle spin. On average, you're looking at 350 to 450 pesetas per minute, which is not bad for something you can do while half-watching a stream.

The weird part? The game still has not patched this out. As of the latest public build past 1.04, MachineGames has fixed progression blockers but left this money machine alone. The exploit survives because loot tables generate when a zone loads, but the 'opened' flag only writes after the fact. By saving between those two moments, you create a tiny desync that the game just accepts.

Shanghai Black-Market Alley Loop

If you prefer something less punch-happy, Shanghai has a zero-risk farm that feels almost too generous. Head to the alley behind The Blue Lotus jazz club. Tucked back there are two unattended suitcases labeled 'Baggage Point – Neutral Stash' that nobody seems to care about.

Here is the kicker: every time you step 18 meters down the alley, you cross a concession border trigger. Cross it, turn around, and those suitcases have magically refilled. A full loop - pop them open, sprint to the border, sprint back - takes about 24 seconds. Each run gives you two or three handgun rounds, a health kit or two, and a random trinket worth 5 to 20 XP. There are no owners, no guards, and zero chance of raising an alert.

Unfortunately, the game catches on if you get too greedy. After roughly 25 laps, a soft throttle kicks in and the cases only hold a single bullet each. You'll need to reload the Shanghai chunk by fast-traveling or dying to reset the loop.

Save-Scum Stealing Technique

For those who don't mind abusing the save system, the Vatican crypt offers a weirdly consistent payday. Quick-save just outside the gate, sneak down to the Elite Swiss Guard, pickpocket him for a fixed 200-peseta roll, then immediately save again before reloading your checkpoint.

The whole process takes 70 to 90 seconds, which works out to around 8,000 pesetas per hour. It also doubles as stealth practice for The Stolen Cat Mummy mission, so you're grinding money and skills at the same time.

The difficulty setting doesn't change the payout, but switching to Adventurer makes the stealth window much more forgiving. One thing to keep in mind: console load times will slow you down. Xbox clocks in around 11 seconds per reload, while PS5 takes about 13 seconds, so PC players have a slight edge here.

Money Management and Optimization

Money in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle isn't just for buying gear - it's the key to getting your actual character progression through Adventure Books and eventually nabbing that 'Charitable Archaeologist' achievement. But the system is weirdly specific about where you can spend each type of currency, and burning cash on bribes early can seriously hurt your late-game upgrades.

Buy Adventure Books First (Antiquarian Skill)

Adventure Books aren't just nice to have - they're literally the only way Indy gets better at making money. Leveling up your Antiquarian skill line means every container you crack open has more cash inside, and we're talking a flat +20% increase across the board.

The skill breaks down into three tiers that stack up nicely. Keen Eye starts you off with better coin drops from small caches. Haggle then kicks in to boost artifact sell values by 20%, which means those relics you've been hoarding are suddenly worth way more. The final piece, Fortune Hunter, is where it gets spicy - it guarantees an extra 50-200 currency from every safe and chest you open.

So yeah, buy these before anything else. Grab 'Principles of Archaeological Commerce' in the Vatican for Tier 1, snag 'Priceless or Worthless?' in Gizeh for Tier 2, and track down 'Fortunes in the Dust' in Sukhothai for Tier 3.

Use Disguises to Reduce Bribe Costs

A good disguise doesn't just help you blend in - it basically gives you a 50% discount on bribes across the board. When you've got the correct regional outfit equipped, a lot of NPCs won't even ask for money in the first place, which means you can keep that cash for actual upgrades.

The best part? You get these disguises for free through story missions and side quests. There's one side quest you absolutely can't miss: 'Voss Gold Stash' in Sukhothai drops a whopping 2,000 Currency and 50 Adventure Points, making it one of the biggest money boosts you'll find.

If you're feeling extra greedy, you can pickpocket guards while disguised for 200+ currency each. Just know that getting caught flips them hostile instantly, so it's a gamble - either you walk away richer or you start a fight you probably wanted to avoid.

Donation Box Mechanics (Post-Purchase)

After you've cleaned out a regional catalog completely, merchants stop selling items and their shop gets replaced by a donation box. This is your ticket to the 'Charitable Archaeologist' achievement - you get it the instant you buy that final item, and you're expected to dump your entire wallet into the box right then and there.

Vendors will still buy your artifacts and photos, but the 'Buy' menu is gone for good. The donation box becomes your only cash sink, and unfortunately, it's not flexible. You can't chip in partial amounts; it's all-or-nothing per currency type. Got 500 Lira left? You're donating all 500 Lira.

So yeah, make sure you're absolutely ready to empty your pockets before you click on that glowing box. There's no 'donate 100 Lira' option - it's the whole stack or nothing.

Regional Currency Differences and Exchange

Here's a brutal truth: your Vatican Lira is worthless the second you step into Gizeh. The game has three completely separate currencies - Lira, Egyptian Pounds, and Baht - and there's no exchange mechanic whatsoever. Money you farm in one region stays there, period.

What do you do when you're broke in a new area? You farm it locally, and there are a few reliable methods. Break every crate you see, pop open red-cross medical chests, pickpocket clueless tourists, or sell those photos you've been snapping.

If you want to get efficient about it, there are specific routes. The Vatican has a museum halls and crypts loop that nets 2,520 Lira per run. Sukhothai's riverside market stalls drop 80-120 Baht each and they reset fast enough to grind. You'll need to do this if you want to clear out those regional catalogs before hitting the donation box.

Mastering the game's economy is about more than just looting tents. By prioritizing Adventure Books, using disguises to cut costs, and farming efficient regional routes, you can maximize your earnings and unlock key upgrades. Now, go put those pesetas to work - fortune favors the prepared archaeologist.