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1000 Afghanis
| Issuer | Bank of Afghanistan |
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| Year | 1939 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette contains a portrait of King Muhammad Zahir Shah in military uniform, framed by intricate guilloche border work. The Bank of Afghanistan title inscription in Dari script appears at top centre, with the Afghan royal seal to the right. Denomination numerals in Arabic and Western script appear at lower left and lower right, with two serial number impressions and three manuscript signatures at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | د افغانستان بانک |
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Bradbury Wilkinson produced this note for the Bank of Afghanistan during a period when Kabul was actively modernizing its financial institutions under Nadir Shah's reforms — reforms that his son Zahir Shah continued after the 1933 assassination. The relationship between Afghanistan and British printing houses was largely pragmatic: domestic printing infrastructure simply didn't exist at the required security level, so London supplied the notes for a country that was simultaneously trying to maintain independence from British political influence.
Pick 27A is the rarer of the two catalogue variants for this type. Worth verifying the signature combination carefully before attributing.