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About Afghan Afghani
The afghani is the official currency of Afghanistan, a status it has held since the 1920s. It is nominally subdivided into 100 puls, although there are no pul coins in circulation these days. Printed in Poland, the afghani currency is managed solely by the Central Bank of Afghanistan.
The afghani was introduced in 1923 but is still informally referred to as a rupee by some in conversation and transactions, a legacy of its predecessing Afghan rupee currency. Its current exchange rate is around 65 afghanis for 1 United States dollar. WikipediaAbout Ethiopian Birr
The birr is the primary unit of currency in Ethiopia. It is subdivided into 100 santims.
In 1931, Emperor Haile Selassie formally requested that the international community use the name Ethiopia instead of the exonym Abyssinia, and the issuing Bank of Abyssinia also became the Bank of Ethiopia. Thus, the pre-1931 currency may be referred to as the Abyssinian birr and the post-1931 currency the Ethiopian birr, although neither the country nor the currency changed beyond the name.
186 billion birr were in circulation in 2008. Wikipedia