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500 Afghanis
| Issuer | Bank of Afghanistan |
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| Year | 1967 |
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| Value | 500 Afghanis (أفغاني) (500 AFA) |
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| Obverse lettering | د افغانستان بانک په قعده افغانۍ افغانستان بانک |
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| Reverse lettering | د افغانستان بانک 500 AFGHANIS ۵۰۰ افغانۍ |
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The Bank of Afghanistan's reliance on Thomas De La Rue throughout the 1960s reflects a deliberate policy of outside production — Afghanistan had no domestic banknote printing capability, and London-printed issues were considered more resistant to local counterfeiting than anything that could be reproduced regionally. The 1967 series of which this 500 Afghanis is a part was issued under relatively stable monetary conditions, before the political turbulence of the 1970s severely disrupted currency management.
Pick 45 is not a scarce note in circulated grades, but high-grade examples are harder to source than the catalog frequency suggests — the 500 Afghani denomination saw genuine transactional use rather than hoarding.