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50 Afghanis
| Issuer | Bank of Afghanistan (Da Afghanistan Bank) |
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| Year | 1961 |
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| Value | 50 Afghanis (أفغاني) (50 AFA) |
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| Obverse lettering | دافغانستان بانک پنجاه افغانۍ 50 افغانس |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Mausoleum of King Nadir Shah in Kabul, rendered in green intaglio, with a wide staircase approach and domed structure set against a plain background. The denomination '50' appears in large numerals at upper left and lower right, flanking the architectural motif. Decorative floral guilloche borders run along the left and right margins, with the bank name in Arabic script at top centre and the denomination in Dari script at bottom centre. |
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De La Rue printed this series for Afghanistan through the late 1950s and into the 1960s, a period when the Daoud Khan government was actively courting both Soviet and American aid simultaneously — a foreign policy balancing act that kept Kabul diplomatically solvent even as its currency remained structurally dependent on foreign printing contracts. The 1961 date places this note at the tail end of that equilibrium, just before the 1963 constitutional reforms that would eventually reshape the country's banking institutions.
Pick 39 is one of the more commonly encountered Afghan notes from this era in collector holdings, though circulated examples frequently show significant horizontal fold damage along the center crease — a known characteristic of this format in active use.