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10 Afghanis

Issuer Ministry of Finance, Afghanistan
Year 1928
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Shape Rectangular
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Reverse lettering Sur Présentation de ce billet la Trésorerie Paiera au Porteur la somme de 10 afghanis
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Variants P#9a - without watermark
P#9b - watermark: small squares
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Afghanistan's 1928 treasury notes were issued under Amanullah Khan's modernization program, which attempted to restructure the country's financial system along more Western lines. The effort was short-lived — Amanullah abdicated in January 1929 following a tribal revolt, and much of his reform apparatus, including the currency framework, was dismantled or disrupted almost immediately after.

These notes were issued directly by the Treasury rather than through a central bank, which Afghanistan would not establish until 1939. Surviving examples from this series are genuinely scarce, a predictable consequence of the political upheaval that followed within months of issue.

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