Other banknotes come in blue (500 afghanis), violet (100 afghanis), dark green (50 afghanis), brown (20 afghanis) and yellow green (10 afghanis), depicting various national monuments and natural landmarks. The Shrine of Hazrat Ali in Mazari Sharif and the Tom of Ahmad Shah Durrani are depicted on its obverse and reverse, respectively. The highest value banknote is 1000 afghani, which comes in orange colour. They come in different colours and sizes. Original 1, 2 and 5 afghani banknotes were replaced with coins in 2005. There are 10, 20, 50, 100, 5 afghani banknotes currently in circulation. New, standardized currency was introduced after the fall of Taliban in 2002. Today, the highest afghani banknote in circulation is 1000 afghani while the highest banknote in all the history was 10,000 afghani during the Taliban rule. Banknotes, which originally came in the value of 5, 10 and 50 afghani, were later joined by higher value banknotes. The coins used today were introduced in 2005 when they replaced the banknotes in circulation since 2002. Besides these coins, 25 pul and 50 pul used to be in circulation until the nineties.
Russian firm used for printing the currency until that time had its contract cancelled by Taliban’s Central Bank.Ĭoins of afghani currency come in the value of 1, 2 and 5 afghani. dollar could be traded for 21,000 afghanis. This led to inflation and depreciation of the currency. This was largely due to virtually no standardization before 2001 when banknotes could be issued by warlords and political parties themselves. New afghani currency was introduced at the end of the year 2002. Pul is however not in circulation anymore.īesides pul and afghani, people in Afghanistan might also use another currency, Amani, even if only in speech. Besides afghanis, pul have also been used. The currency consists of coins and banknotes. In 2002, the originally currency afghani (AFA) was replaced with new aghani currency (AFN). Its origin went back to the rule of Pashtun monarch She Shah Suri who issued the first rupees in the 16 th century. Before then, Afghan rupee was the currency used in the land. This currency was first introduced in 1925.
#AFGHAN CURRENCY RATES CODE#
The currency in Afghanistan is called afghani (with an international code being AFN while the local abbreviation is Afs).
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