Afghani

This article covers the Afghan currency, Afghani. For further meanings, see Afghani (disambiguation) .

Afghani
Country:	Afghanistan
Subdivision:	100 pul
ISO 4217 code :	AFN
Abbreviation:	Af
Exchange rate : (29 Mar 2020)	1  EUR  = 85.51 AFN 100 AFN = 1.1695 EUR 1  CHF  = 79.463 AFN 100 AFN = 1.2584 CHF

500 Afghani silver coin from 1981

The Afghani ( Pashto :افغانۍ, Persian افغانی) is the currency of Afghanistan .

1 Afghani is in 100 Pul (پول "Money") shared.

history

The Afghani ( ISO-4217 code : AFN) was first introduced in 1926 under the Afghan ruler Amanullah Khan . It replaced the Afghan rupee (روپيه), which had served as currency in Afghanistan for centuries, at an exchange ratio of 11:10.

The population still speaks of rupiah while writing in the accounting language of afghani or afghanigi is used. Afghani or aughan are other names for Pashtun .

A brief interruption in the issue of these denominations took place in 1929 by King Habibullah Kalakâni , who returned to the old currency of Afghanistan.

Pul (Abbreviation: Pl)

The Pulmünzen were minted in copper between the years 1926 and 1937 , in 1938 in bronze and copper-nickel , in 1973 in steel and from 1978 to 2003 in aluminum-bronze .

Afghani

From 1926 to 1937 Afghanis were minted in silver , in 1957 and 1958 in aluminum , 1961 in steel , 1978 to 2003 in copper-nickel and from 2004 in steel, although there are several commemorative coins that were minted in silver.

At the end of 2002, the old Afghani ( ISO 4217 code : AFA) was replaced by the new Afghani (ISO 4217 code: AFN) with an exchange ratio of 1: 1000.

Banknotes now exist in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1000 Afghani. They are issued by the Da Afghanistan Bank .

The local colloquial name for 100,000 Afghanis is: 1 lakh.

2002 series
Illustration		value	Dimensions	Main color	description		date
front	back				front	back	pressure	output
		1 afghani	131 × 55 mm	pink	Seal of the Da Afghanistan Bank	Mosque in Mazar-e Sharif	2002 ( Iranian calendar 1381)	October 7, 2002
		2 afghani		blue		Triumphal Arch in the Gardens of Paghman
		5 afghani		brown		Bala Hissar
		10 afghani	136 × 56 mm	Yellow-green		Gardens of Paghman
		20 afghani	140 × 58 mm	brown		Royal Palace ARG
		50 afghani	144 × 60 mm	Dark green		Mountains
		100 afghani	148 × 62 mm	violet		approx. 1000 year old Qala e Bost archway in Bost
		500 afghanis	152 × 64 mm	blue		Kandahar , airport tower
		1000 afghanis	156 × 66 mm	orange		Tomb of Ahmad Shah Durrani Baba

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• World coin catalog 20th century by Günter and Gerhard Schön, Battenberg
• Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights. A lexicon. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1986, licensed edition Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 375

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