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| 背面描述 | A naturalistic depiction of a Deinotherium, the extinct proboscidean, dominates the field, rendered in high relief and shown in a marshland setting with aquatic grasses and shallow water in the foreground and background. The animal is portrayed in a three-quarter stance with its distinctive downward-curving tusks and elongated trunk raised. The legend PREHISTORIC ANIMALS arcs along the upper periphery, the species name Deinotherium follows along the right border, and the date 1993 appears in the lower right portion of the field. |
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| 背面铭文 | PREHISTORIC ANIMALS Deinotherium 1993 |
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Afghanistan in 1993 was in the middle of civil war following the Soviet withdrawal and the collapse of the Najibullah government — hardly a moment when the state had functioning monetary infrastructure. This coin was never intended for circulation. It belongs to a wave of wildlife-themed collector issues produced in the early 1990s under licensing arrangements with foreign minting agencies, effectively sold into the numismatic market to generate hard currency for a government that controlled little more than Kabul.
The Deinotherium was a proboscidean that diverged from true elephants roughly 35 million years ago, surviving into the early Pleistocene. Fossil material has been recovered from Afghan territory, which provides at least a nominal geographic justification for the subject.