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Portrait of King Muhammad Zahir Shah at left, in military uniform, set against a guilloche underprint with the Afghan national arms vignette at centre. Denomination numeral '20' appears at lower right, with Dari and Pashto inscriptions across the middle and lower portion of the note. The ornate border consists of fine geometric latticework typical of Bradbury Wilkinson intaglio work, with three signature facsimiles along the lower margin. |
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Central vignette of a mountain valley landscape, likely the Khyber Pass region, rendered in fine intaglio engraving with a small village settlement visible at the foot of the hills. Two large radiating guilloche rosettes flank the central scene on the left and right. Denomination inscriptions in both Western and Eastern Arabic numerals appear at the corners and centre, with a multi-line Dari/Pashto text panel below the central vignette. |
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Bradbury Wilkinson produced this note during a stretch of Afghan banking history that was anything but stable — the 1930s and 40s saw repeated pressure on the afghani from wartime trade disruptions and a chronic balance-of-payments problem tied to the country's dependence on karakul pelt exports. When global demand for those pelts softened, the currency felt it directly.
Pick 24 spans a seven-year window, which suggests the plates were used across multiple print runs without significant revision — typical of Bradbury Wilkinson's contract work in this period, where economy of plate production favored longevity over periodic redesign.