Saturday, December 25, 2010

Afghanistan

Afghanistan 1979 #58c
100 Afghanis

Measures approximately 5-1/2" by 2-1/2". This note features deep red-violet on multicolor underprint. The front shows a farm worker in a wheat field on the right. The reverse shows a the Darunta Dam. Darunta Dam is a hydroelectric power dam located on the Kabul River, approximately 7 km west of Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan.
It was constructed by Soviet Union (USSR) companies in the early 1960’s and contains three vertical Kaplan (6 blade propeller) units with rated output of 3.85 MW each.




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500 Afghanis


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1000 Afghanis


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10 Afghanis

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