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500 Afghanis World Food Summit
| Issuer | Da Afghanistan Bank |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Weight | 20 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicts a detailed landscape view of the Zafar Gate in Paghman Valley, showing a pair of tall classical columns with entablature at left and a triumphal arch at right, set against a mountainous background with cypress trees. The FAO globe-and-laurel logo with the date 1996 appears in the upper right field. The circumferential legend WORLD FOOD SUMMIT - ROME 13-17 NOV arcs along the upper border, while ZAFAR GATE IN PAGHMAN VALLEY is inscribed along the lower arc. |
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The 1996 World Food Summit, convened in Rome by the FAO, drew 185 nations to address global hunger targets — yet Afghanistan at the time was mid-collapse, with the Taliban seizing Kabul in September of that year, just weeks before the summit opened in November. Da Afghanistan Bank issuing a commemorative for an international food security conference while the country's own agricultural economy was being systematically dismantled makes this one of the more incongruous official issues of the decade.