Catalog
10 Afghanis
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance, Afghanistan |
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| Year | 1928 |
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| Currency | First afghani (1925-2003) |
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| Obverse description | Black and orange on green underprint. The face is divided into four circular devices: a tughra at upper left, the numeral 10 at lower left, a mosque vignette at upper right, and a further circular ornament at lower right. The central panel carries Arabic and Pashto inscriptions in stylised calligraphy enclosed within a decorative rectangular frame with geometric guilloche borders. |
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| Reverse lettering | Sur Présentation de ce billet la Trésorerie Paiera au Porteur la somme de 10 afghanis ۱۳۰۷ |
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Afghanistan's 1928 treasury notes were issued under Amanullah Khan's modernization program, which attempted to restructure the country's financial system along more Western lines. The effort was short-lived — Amanullah abdicated in January 1929 following a tribal revolt, and much of his reform apparatus, including the currency framework, was dismantled or disrupted almost immediately after.
These notes were issued directly by the Treasury rather than through a central bank, which Afghanistan would not establish until 1939. Surviving examples from this series are genuinely scarce, a predictable consequence of the political upheaval that followed within months of issue.