This infobox shows the latest status before this currency was rendered obsolete.
The Afghan rupee was the currency of Afghanistan between the mid-18th century and early 20th century.[2][1] It was subdivided into 60 paisa, each of 10 dinar. Other denominations issued included the shahi of 5 paisa, the sanar of 10 paisa, the abbasi of 20 paisa, the qiran of 1⁄2 rupee and the tilla and later the amani, both of Rs. 10/-.
Before 1891, silver rupees circulated with copper falus and gold mohur. The three metals had no fixed exchange rate between them, with different regions issuing their own coins. That year, a new currency was introduced, based on the Kabuli rupee and replacing both that and its Kandahari variant. The Afghan rupee was replaced in 1923 by the Afghani.[1][3]
The Afghan rupee was put into circulation by Afghan Emperor Ahmad Shah Durrani in 1754.[2] The rupee itself was first issued by Sher Shah Suri during his rule of Sur Empire in the sixteenth century; India still uses its own variant of the rupee (along with Pakistan - see Pakistani rupee - since its creation in 1947).
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^ ab"Silver Rupee of Ahmed Shah Durrani". Mintage World. January 4, 2018. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
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Emir Amanullah Khan signed the Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 following the Third Anglo-Afghan War, gaining full Afghan independence. In 1926, Amanullah Khan...
currency of Afghanistan since the 1920s. All pul coins have been demonetized. Until the 1920s, the currency of Afghanistan was the Afghanrupee, which was...
years to distinguish it from the old paisa that was 1⁄64 of a rupee. In Hindi, Bengali, Afghan Persian, Urdu, Nepali and other languages, the word paisa often...
and subsequently Amanullah and precipitating the Third Anglo-Afghan War that led to Afghan Independence. They attempted to establish relations with foreign...
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collective punishment against Afghans and Afghan immigrants were being scapegoated for Pakistan's economic crisis. Afghan migration to Pakistan dates back to...
also regarded as carrying a heavy anti-Afghan attitude, supporting the deportation of 1.7 million illegal Afghan refugees. He has also stated that Pakistan...
prominent rulers of Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War. With the decline of the Durrani dynasty, he became the Emir of Afghanistan in 1826. An ethnic...
150,000 rupees becomes 1.5 lakh rupees, written as ₹1,50,000 or INR 1,50,000. It is widely used both in official and other contexts in Afghanistan, Bangladesh...
life in exile. In August 1929, during the Afghan Civil War (1928–1929), there were rumours in Kabul that rupees bearing Inayatullah's name were circulating...
Kingdom of Nepal, and Persia (chiefly Afghanistan). It was usually equivalent in value to fifteen silver rupees. It was last minted in British India in...
an archaic form of the Greek epsilon, to represent Europe; the Indian rupee sign ₹ is a blend of the Latin letter 'R' with the Devanagari letter र (ra);...
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