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10 000 Afghanis
| Issuer | Da Afghanistan Bank |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large vignette of the celebrated decorative arch of Qala-e-Bost, the eleventh-century triumphal arch forming part of the remains of a mosque within the ancient fortress complex near the confluence of the Helmand and Arghandab Rivers, south of Lashkargah. Denomination numerals and issuer text are set against a multicolour guilloche underprint. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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P#63 is something of an anomaly in the post-Soviet Afghan series: dual printing attribution to both De La Rue in London and Goznak in Moscow. Afghanistan's currency infrastructure was severely disrupted by factional conflict in the early 1990s, and the government — such as it was under Najibullah and then the Mujahideen coalition — sourced printing from wherever contracts could be maintained. Whether the two printers produced different print runs or contributed separate production stages is not definitively established in the literature.
Hyperinflation had so eroded the Afghani by this point that 10,000 units represented a denomination unthinkable a decade earlier.