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10 Afghanis
| Issuer | Bank of Afghanistan |
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| Year | 1948-1957 |
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| Value | 10 Afghanis (أفغاني) (10 AFA) |
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| Obverse lettering | د افغانستان بانک |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of a formal garden with a circular reflecting pool in the foreground, flanked by cypress trees and ornamental plantings, with a domed mosque or palace structure visible in the middle distance. The bank title in Arabic script is printed across the top, with the denomination '10 AFGHANIS' in English at upper left and lower right corners. A decorative lattice-pattern panel occupies the left portion of the note, with a multi-line Arabic inscription in a cartouche at the lower centre. |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed this series for Afghanistan through the late 1940s and into the 1950s, a period when the central bank was still consolidating its authority over a currency system that had only recently displaced older forms of regional exchange. The relationship between Kabul and London-based security printers was typical of the period — many smaller issuing authorities lacked domestic intaglio infrastructure and contracted out entirely.
Pick 30 spans nearly a decade of issue dates, and specimens with early dates within the range tend to be harder to source than later ones. The watermark is the sole security feature — no thread, no serial number variety of note.