10 Afghanis

This note entered circulation the same year Soviet forces invaded Afghanistan — December 1979 — making it one of the first issues printed under what would become, almost immediately, a client-state relationship with Moscow. Goznak had supplied Afghan banknote production for several years before the invasion, so the printing contract itself predates the occupation, but the timing is difficult to separate from the political reality that followed.

Goznak's watermark security on Afghan issues of this period is generally considered light work by the printer's own standards.