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5 Afghanis
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance, Kingdom of Afghanistan |
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| Year | 1926 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | خزانه داری کل قبوداری پنج افغانی بجای کاغذ پول بر اساس مطالبه پرداخت میشود ۱۳۰۵ |
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| Variants | P#7a - Back green, purple and tan P#7b - Face green, purple and tan. Back lilac. Toughra at center P#7c - Uniface. Back lilac P#7d - Uniface. Back blue. Rare |
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Afghanistan's 1926 Treasury notes predate the establishment of Da Afghanistan Bank by nearly three decades — the central bank wasn't founded until 1939, leaving the Ministry of Finance as the sole issuing authority during this period. The P#7 5 Afghani note falls within the reign of Amanullah Khan, whose modernization program included replacing the older rupee-denominated system with the afghani in 1925, a currency reform tied directly to Afghan assertions of full independence following the Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919.
Surviving examples are genuinely scarce. Afghanistan's economic infrastructure at the time meant distribution was uneven, and storage conditions in the region were rarely kind to paper.