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5 Afghanis
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | دولتی افغانستان پنج افغانی را بحال سند نا خزانهٔ افغانستان وعده ناپذیرفغ عبدالمطلب یدبه 5 Afghanis |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and brown, dominated by an intricate engine-turned guilloche rosette at centre, surrounded by concentric floral and geometric lathe-work panels. The denomination numeral '5' appears in all four corners in both Western and Eastern Arabic script. Two lines of Dari text are set within a central cartouche over a sunburst underprint, with a decorative rosette at upper right. |
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Afghanistan's Ministry of Finance issued paper currency directly — bypassing a central bank — during a period when the Da Afghanistan Bank either lacked the authority or the infrastructure to manage note issuance independently. The P#16C is part of a series that circulated under some of the most unstable political conditions in twentieth-century Afghan history, with successive governments reprinting near-identical designs to maintain continuity of acceptance in a population with limited trust in state paper.
Cotton substrate was a practical necessity given Afghanistan's climate and the rough handling notes received in rural trade. High-altitude storage, dust, and repeated folding mean survivors in clean condition are less common than the print runs might suggest.