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20 Afghanis
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance |
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| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is executed in the same reddish-brown palette, dominated by an intricately engraved rectangular central panel filled with dense arabesque and floral scrollwork in the Islamic decorative tradition. The denomination numeral "20" appears in large Western digits at the lower left and in Arabic-Indic script within a circular guilloche medallion at the right. A central cartouche contains two lines of Arabic inscription. The outer border repeats the numeral "20" and "٢٠" alternately along all four margins, and a separate small guilloche rosette element is printed to the upper right outside the main panel. |
| Reverse lettering | 20 ٢٠ داافغانستان د خزانې اسناد د مالیې وزارت |
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Afghanistan's Ministry of Finance issued paper currency directly — bypassing a central bank — during a period when Da Afghanistan Bank either lacked authority or capacity to manage note issuance independently. The P#18A is part of a series tied to that arrangement, an administrative oddity that distinguishes Afghan issues of this period from most contemporaneous Asian emission structures.
Cotton substrate was the practical choice for a country with punishing circulation conditions: heat, dust, and repeated hand-to-hand transfer in bazaar economies destroyed rag paper quickly. Notes from this series that survived did so largely outside active commerce.