Catalog
100 Afghanis
| Issuer | Bank of Afghanistan |
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| Year | 1939-1946 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of King Muhammad Zahir Shah in military uniform at right, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. Central text panel carries Dari inscriptions with serial number and date, flanked by an ornate guilloche underprint panel at left. The bank title appears in Arabic script across the upper border, with the denomination '100 Afghanis' in both numerals and lettering at the corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | د افغانستان بانک |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed this series for the Bank of Afghanistan during a period when the country was navigating careful neutrality — Afghanistan stayed out of the Second World War, but the conflict disrupted trade routes and put pressure on the domestic economy in ways that made reliable paper currency more politically important than usual. The notes were engraved and printed in London, then shipped to Kabul for issue, a supply arrangement that became increasingly complicated after 1939.
Pick 26 spans a seven-year window, and dating individual examples within that range is not straightforward — the series shows little typographic variation between early and late printings.