The Afghan rupee was the currency of

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is borde ...

until 1925. Before 1891, silver rupees circulated with copper ''falus'' and gold ''mohur''. The three metals had no fixed

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between them, with different regions issuing their own coins. In 1891, a new currency was introduced, based on the Kabuli rupee. The

rupee Rupee is the common name for the currencies of India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles, and Sri Lanka, and of former currencies of Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates (as the Gulf rupee), British East Africa, ...

was subdivided into 60 ''

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'', each of 10 ''

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''. Other denominations issued included the ''shahi'' of 5 paisa, the ''sanar'' of 10 paisa, the ''abbasi'' of 20 paisa, the ''qiran'' of rupee and the ''tilla'' and later the ''amani'', both of Rs. 10/-. The rupee was replaced in 1925 by the Afghani, which is the currency today, but continued to be in circulation until 1978. The

itself was first issued by

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monarch

Sher Shah Suri Sher Shah Suri ( ps, شیرشاه سوری) (1472, or 1486 – 22 May 1545), born Farīd Khān ( ps, فرید خان) , was the founder of the Sur Empire in India, with its capital in Sasaram in modern-day Bihar. He standardized the silver coin ...

during his rule of northern India in the sixteenth century;

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still uses its own variant of the rupee (along with

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- ''see''

Pakistani rupee The Pakistani rupee ( ur, / ALA-LC: ; currency symbol, sign: Re (singular) and Rs (plural); ISO 4217, ISO code: PKR) is the official currency of Pakistan since 1948. The coins and notes are issued and controlled by the central bank, namely St ...

- since its creation in 1947), whereas Afghanistan does not.

Banknotes

In 1919, Treasury notes were introduced in denominations of Re. 1/-, Rs. 5/-, Rs. 10/-, Rs. 50/- and Rs. 100/-.

Coins

File:AFG 1 rupia.jpg, 1 rupee coin File:Amani.jpg, 2 Amani gold coin (1920)

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{{Rupee, state=collapsed Modern obsolete currencies Currencies of Afghanistan 1925 disestablishments 1891 establishments by country