Afghan rupee

The Afghan rupee was the currency of Afghanistan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The rupee 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/-.

Afghan rupee

5 Afghan rupee banknote (1919)
Unit
Plural	rupees
Symbol	Re/Rs‎
Denominations
Superunit
30	habibi
10	tilla
Subunit
1⁄60	paisa, paise (pl.)
1⁄600	dinar
Banknotes	Re. 1/-, Rs. 5/-, Rs. 10/-, Rs. 50/-, Rs. 100/-
Demographics
Date of introduction	1891
Replaced	Kabuli rupee Kandahari rupee
Date of withdrawal	1925
Replaced by	Afghan afghani
User(s)	Afghanistan
This infobox shows the latest status before this currency was rendered obsolete.

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 rupee was replaced in 1925 by the Afghani, but continued to be in circulation until 1978.

The rupee itself was first issued by Pashtun monarch Sher Shah Suri during his rule of northern India in the sixteenth century; India still uses its own variant of the rupee (along with Pakistan - see Pakistani rupee - since its creation in 1947), whereas Afghanistan does not.