# Bank’s commercial currency exchange rate
This method allows retrieving a current commercial currency exchange rate by a Bank of Georgia for a given currency to a Georgian Lari and vice versa.

:::note
This method is rate limited — 60 requests per minute are allowed. Exceeding the limit returns `429 Too Many Requests` with a `Retry-After` header (in seconds).
:::

## Query params

- `currency` — string, required

  A currency code in the ISO 4217 format (e.g.: USD, GEL).

**REQUEST**

```api
GET api/rates/commercial/{currency}
```

## Response

- `Sell` — decimal number

  A commercial currency exchange rate from a Georgian Lari to a given currency by the Bank of Georgia.

- `Buy` — decimal number

  A commercial currency exchange rate from a given currency to a  Georgian Lari by Bank of Georgia.

**JSON**

```json
{
  "Sell": 1.0,
  "Buy": 1.0
}
```

**xml**

```xml
<CommercialRate xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/CIBApi.Models">
  <Buy>1</Buy>
  <Sell>1</Sell>
</CommercialRate>
```