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100 Afghanis
| Issuer | Bank of Afghanistan |
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| Year | 1939-1946 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Central oval vignette presents the domed mausoleum of Ahmad Shah Durrani in Kandahar, surrounded by elaborate scrollwork and foliate intaglio borders. A large guilloche rosette with the numeral '100' occupies the left panel, while a blank panel appears at right. Dari inscriptions run along the lower border, with the denomination and bank name repeated in the upper corners. |
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| Variants | P#26a - SH 1318 (1939) |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed this series for the Bank of Afghanistan during a period when the country was navigating careful neutrality — Afghanistan stayed out of the Second World War, but the conflict disrupted trade routes and put pressure on the domestic economy in ways that made reliable paper currency more politically important than usual. The notes were engraved and printed in London, then shipped to Kabul for issue, a supply arrangement that became increasingly complicated after 1939.
Pick 26 spans a seven-year window, and dating individual examples within that range is not straightforward — the series shows little typographic variation between early and late printings.