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1 Afghani
| Issuer | Da Afghanistan Bank |
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| Year | 2002-2004 |
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| Value | 1 Afghani (أفغاني) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a detailed architectural vignette of the Blue Mosque (Shrine of Hazrat Ali) in Mazar-i-Sharif, its distinctive tiled domes and minarets rendered against a light background. The design is framed by geometric guilloche borders consistent with the obverse, with the bank name and denomination value inscribed in both Dari and English. |
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| Protection description | a mosque motif visible when held to light |
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This note belongs to the transitional series issued after the fall of the Taliban and the establishment of the Afghan Interim Authority. The 2002 redenomination replaced the old afghani at a rate of 1,000 to 1, deliberately severing the monetary link to the hyperinflationary chaos of the 1990s civil war period — a currency reform backed by the IMF and implemented with unusual speed given the political conditions on the ground.
Giesecke & Devrient, the Munich-based security printer with a long history in post-conflict currency production, handled the job from their Leipzig facility. The 1 afghani denomination was largely symbolic in daily commerce; by 2004, it had negligible purchasing power in real transactions.