5 Afghanis

Afghanistan's Ministry of Finance issued this note directly rather than through a central bank — Da Afghanistan Bank wouldn't be established until 1939. The 1936 series, of which this is part, was printed by Orell Füssli in Zurich, a firm with deep roots in Swiss security printing going back to the sixteenth century and responsible for a significant share of Afghan paper currency production during this period.

The low denomination suggests heavy everyday use, and survivors in anything above circulated grades are genuinely uncommon.