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10 Afghanis
| Issuer | Bank of Afghanistan |
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| Year | 1948-1957 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of King Muhammad Zahir Shah in military uniform at left, set within an ornate frame. The bank title in Arabic script appears across the top, with the denomination numeral '10' at lower left and right; a guilloche underprint and the national arms appear centrally. Two rows of Arabic text inscriptions fill the right portion of the note, with serial number and prefix characters at upper and lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | د افغانستان بانک ۱۰ افغانی 10 AFGHANIS |
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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.