1 Paisa - Habibullah Qandahar mint

Habibullah Khan ruled Afghanistan from 1901 until his assassination in 1919, maintaining a careful neutrality during the First World War despite significant pressure from both the Ottoman-backed jihad movement and British India. The Qandahar mint operated intermittently and with considerably less output than Kabul, making its issues consistently scarcer across all denominations of the period.

KM#964 is frequently encountered with weak or uneven strikes — a known characteristic of Qandahar copper production, not a grade-specific flaw.