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1 Afghani
| Issuer | Afghanistan |
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| Year | 1978 |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts the national arms of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan under the Khalq regime: a stylized eagle or emblem featuring a prominent crescent and star motif surmounted by a five-pointed star, flanked on both sides by sheaves of wheat. A ribbon at the base of the arms bears inscriptions in Pashto script referencing the Saur Revolution of 1357. The circular legend in Arabic script reads the full state title along the upper periphery, with the date 1357 (Solar Hijri, corresponding to 1978) inscribed at the bottom of the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | د افغانستان دموکراتیك جمهوری دولت خلق ثور-١٣٥٧ (Translation: Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, `Khalq`, 1357 `sowr` (as is Sowr Revolution/April Coup)) |
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1978 marks the year of the Saur Revolution — the April coup in which the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan seized power, killing President Daoud Khan and his family. Coins dated this year straddle two regimes; the Afghan state mint was still producing currency under institutional momentum while the country's political structure collapsed around it.
The PDPA immediately began purging the bureaucracy and reorienting the economy toward Soviet models. Coinage from this transitional year is notable precisely because it reflects neither the old republic nor the new order cleanly.