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5 Afghanis
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Value | 5 Afghanis (أفغاني) (5 AFA) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the obverse carries the Afghan state emblem within an ornate circular guilloche at left, with a vignette of a minaret or column monument set within an oval frame at right. The numeral '5' appears at upper left and right, with the denomination 'Afghanis' in Latin script below the left numeral, and multi-line Dari text forming the main body of the note. Two manuscript signatures appear at lower centre, and the serial number is printed in red at upper left and lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green, dominated by a large central guilloche medallion composed of intricate lathe-work with scrolling foliate ornaments and a radiating sunburst centre. Two lines of Pashto text are inscribed within a rectangular panel at the centre of the medallion. The numeral '5' is repeated at left and right within the design, and a rosette guilloche element appears at upper right on a plain margin. |
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Afghanistan's Ministry of Finance issued this note directly rather than through a central bank — Da Afghanistan Bank wouldn't be established until 1939. The 1936 series, of which this is part, was printed by Orell Füssli in Zurich, a firm with deep roots in Swiss security printing going back to the sixteenth century and responsible for a significant share of Afghan paper currency production during this period.
The low denomination suggests heavy everyday use, and survivors in anything above circulated grades are genuinely uncommon.