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100 Afghanis - Muhammad Zahir
| Issuer | Da Afghanistan Bank |
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| Year | 1961 |
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| Size | 155 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of King Muhammad Zahir Shah in three-quarter view occupies the left portion of the note, set against a rose-pink guilloche underprint with ornate latticework borders on both sides. The bank title in Pashto and Dari scripts appears in the upper centre, with the denomination '100' printed in numerals at lower left and upper right. Three manuscript signatures of senior bank officials appear across the lower centre, above the state seal of Afghanistan. |
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| Protection description | King Muhammad Zahir Shah's portrait, visible in the blank oval panel at right on the obverse |
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Da Afghanistan Bank's early note program relied heavily on Thomas De La Rue for production, and this 1961 issue falls within a period of relative monetary stability under Zahir Shah's constitutional monarchy — before the 1963 reforms that would restructure the government and, eventually, the currency apparatus with it. De La Rue's Afghan contracts during this period produced some of the more technically accomplished notes in the region, with consistent watermark registration that later domestic printing could not replicate.
Pick 40 is the second of two 100 Afghani types bearing this general format; it superseded the earlier P#39 issue from 1957.