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However, on January 2, 2003, a three-month transition period ended swapping old Afghani banknotes for new currency. The new afghani retained the name but had three zeros knocked off, making one Afghani worth $0.0232558 in US dollars (or one US dollar with 43 Afghanis).
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Afghani is sometimes mistakenly used to describe people from Afghanistan (the correct term is Afghan).
Jamal al-Din al-AfghaniJamaluddin was born in Asadabad near Hamedan, Iran. He was affected to see foreigners to rule Moslem lands and believed that the main problem is lack of unity among Moslems. He visited India in hope to make movement at that country, since Most of Muslims was an Iranian-born Muslim nationalist and modernist in the early 20th century.
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