Afghanistan confusion

G'day!
So, I am about to add serial numbers to my banknotes added here, and now I've reached Afghanistan. This might not sound too impressive, since Afghanistan is pretty high up the alphabet, but I have my collection sorted in a different order - a geographical order - so I'm half way through my 8th binder, out of 12, so, it's actually pretty impressive!

Anyhow, I'm at the end of Afghanistan, and got stuck on a letter I've never seen before. So yes this is a language question for all you language nerds out there - or Afghan native. I'm familiar with the Arabic alphabet, as well as Uyghur, Dari, and Pashto. But this is a letter I've never seen, and I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a stylised version of another letter.


Here's the the Prefix is a fraction of 11/P_. So what is the second letter? Is it just a stylised ھ (you see, I know stuff!) with a (very) long tail, or is it a totally different letter? First I was thinking it could be a replacement, but that seems highly unlikely, right?


Also, as seen in the picture, why in the world are they using the Arabic ٦ and nt the Persion ۶ for number 6 in their serial number? (Now you must be impressed, right? ) My 1,000 Afghanis, 5,000 Afghanis and 10,000 Afghanis (P#63a) has this letter as second letter in the fraction.

All help will do.

Cheers!

I've also been thinking it could be a stylised څ, but I really don't know.

Did you learned what that letter was? Btw I have no idea but you got me curious

Nope, I'm still totally clueless. Thanks for the bump, though, I had totally forgotten about this, but maybe someone who sees this has the knowledge.

lol, pickup your choice :)

This website gives two different version

Each time there is a new idea :)

 

but you may be wrong with the 

see this note : 

Can't answer your main question but I found that Pashto used the Arab six instead of the Persian six (Dari uses Persian six)

griff88

Can't answer your main question but I found that Pashto used the Arab six instead of the Persian six (Dari uses Persian six)

Aha, thank you for clearing that up! 😇

May be they consider that the “6” and “2” or “4” persan are too similar for for such an important matter as the serial number of a banknote.

It happened before in Iran with the confusion of the year 2537 and 6537 of the 1 Rial with the personal calendar of the Shah of Iran.

Even Numista is lost with 6537 that is written ۶۵۳۶ 😄 and by the way I'm looking for this coin with this date error for years without success 🙄

griff88

Can't answer your main question but I found that Pashto used the Arab six instead of the Persian six (Dari uses Persian six)

you find everything and anything on the web, even the "4" written in Arabic.

ngdawa

I asked a friend who is from Iran, since I thought he should be familiar with differe t styles of writing, and he said, without a second of thought, that it's a ھ. So that solves that, I guess. 😊

There are some calligraphies.

I wrote to the central bank w/o answer

May be write to the embassy of afghanistan ?