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2 Afghanis
| Emittent | Bank of Afghanistan |
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| Jahr | 1939 |
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| Nennwert | 2 Afghanis (أفغاني) (2 AFA) |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Portrait vignette of King Muhammad Zahir Shah at left, within an oval frame, printed in brown intaglio. The bank name appears in Dari script across the top, with the Afghan national arms at upper centre. The date in the Afghan calendar is inscribed in the central text panel alongside Pashto and Dari legends, with two manuscript signatures below; serial numbers appear at lower left and lower right within a guilloche underprint border. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Central vignette presents a panoramic engraved view of the Bamiyan valley with the colossal Buddha niche carved into the cliff face, rendered in fine intaglio line work in brown. The bank name in Dari script is inscribed across the top panel, with Pashto and Dari legends in a text band below the central vignette. The denomination numeral '2' appears in each corner, and the overall design is framed by a ruled guilloche border. |
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| Sicherheitsmerkmal | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Anmerkungen |
Bradbury Wilkinson engraved and printed this note during a period when Afghanistan was actively modernizing its central banking infrastructure — the Bank of Afghanistan had only been established in 1939, making this among the earliest notes issued under that institution. The choice of a London printer was deliberate policy: Amanullah Khan's reforms of the prior decade had created expectations of internationally credible currency production, and BW&Co had extensive experience printing for smaller sovereign issuers across Asia and the Middle East.
P#21 is the lower denomination of the 1939 series and saw heavy transactional use. Cotton-substrate notes of this value rarely survive in presentable condition.