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10 Afghanis
| Issuer | Bank of Afghanistan |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Size | 145 × 66 mm |
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| Obverse description | Brown and multicolour intaglio print over a fine guilloche underprint. At left, a portrait vignette of King Muhammad Zahir Shah in military uniform, turned three-quarters right; the Da Afghanistan Bank title in Pashto script runs across the top centre, with denomination numeral '10' at upper and lower right corners. Two facsimile signatures appear at centre below the title, accompanied by the Afghan state seal, with serial numbers printed in two positions in dark ink. |
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| Reverse lettering | د افغانستان بانک ١٠ افغانیس |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed this note during a period when Afghanistan was actively modernizing its central banking infrastructure — Da Afghanistan Bank had only been formally established in 1939, and the early series of notes it issued through the 1940s relied entirely on British security printers to produce anything approaching a credible fiduciary instrument. The relationship with Bradbury Wilkinson was the standard solution for smaller issuing authorities with no domestic printing capacity.
P#30A is distinguished from the later P#30B by serial number typography. Worth knowing before attributing a lot.