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20 Pul - Muhammed Nadir Shah
| Issuer | Afghanistan |
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| Year | 1930-1931 |
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| Value | 20 Puls (پول) (0.20 AFA) |
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| Reverse description | Heavily worn reverse displaying a central circular indent or raised ring, flanked on either side by foliate or wheat-ear branches curving symmetrically around the field. The denomination numeral ۲۰ in Eastern Arabic script would appear in the central field, though significant wear has reduced the finer details. The overall design is plain and functional, with the wreath motif mirroring the obverse border treatment. |
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| Reverse lettering | ۲۰ |
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Nadir Shah seized power in October 1929 after ousting Habibullah Kalakani, the Tajik insurgent who had briefly toppled Amanullah Khan's modernizing regime. This coin belongs to the immediate re-stabilization period, when Nadir Shah was rebuilding state institutions — including a functioning coinage system — from scratch. The two-year span reflects the rapid normalization effort rather than any planned series transition.
Nadir Shah was assassinated in November 1933 by a student during a school awards ceremony, making his entire reign a compressed four-year episode.