1 Falus Kabul

Kabul issued its own copper coinage well into the nineteenth century as a semi-autonomous municipal currency, largely independent of whatever power nominally controlled Afghanistan at the time — Durrani, Barakzai, or briefly Sikh. The plated construction of this type suggests a mint economy cutting costs or managing metal shortages, a recurring problem for a landlocked city whose copper supply depended on overland trade routes through the Hindu Kush.