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The rate of conversion from the rupee is sometimes quoted as 1 afghani = 1 rupee 6 paisas, [14] based on the silver contents of the last rupee coins and the first afghani coins. The afghani initially contained 9 grams of silver. [15] Alongside the new currency, the various units of weight used in Afghanistan were replaced by a single metric ...
Delhi Sultan Alauddin Khalji (1296-1316) regulated the prices of staple foods and essential commodities to prevent famine, discourage stockpiling, increase tax revenue, eliminate bribery, and insure that his military personnel were paid on time and could afford to live on their salaries. Battles could be lost if any part of the imperial ...
Until the 1920s, the currency of Afghanistan was the Afghan rupee, which was subdivided into paisa. In 1923, the rupee was replaced by afghani as its official currency. [2] One afghani is subdivided into 100 puls. At the time of introduction, a pul coin was made of copper and weighed one gram. However, a 10 pul coin weighed 6 grams. [3]
A quarter to third of all Afghan officers had trained in the Soviet Union by 1973. [5] It was also under the Kingdom of Afghanistan where the Afghan Commando Forces were formed as the Afghan Army’s first special formations, notably the 242nd Parachute Battalion in 1965 and later, the 444th and the 455th Battalion in 1966 and 1973. All these ...
The hoard was discovered by a construction team in 1933 when digging for foundations for a house near the Chaman-i Hazouri park in central Kabul. According to the then director of Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan (DAFA), the hoard contained about 1,000 silver coins and some jewellery. 127 coins and pieces of jewellery were taken to the Kabul Museum and others made their ...
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1961 Postage Stamp of Nadir Shah Mohammed Nadir Khan, King of Afghanistan from 1929 to 1933. Nadir Khan was born on 9 April 1883 in Dehradun, British India, in the Musahiban branch of the Royal dynasty of Afghanistan (of the Mohammadzai section of Barakzai Pashtuns). His father was Mohammad Yusuf Khan, and his mother was Sharaf Sultana Hukumat ...
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