AFGHANISTAN. Kingdom. Mohammad Zahir Shah, 1933-1973. Bronze 25 Pul. Kabul, SH1313 (1934). Die Crack. KM-931.

This bronze 25 Pul was struck at the Kabul Mint in SH1313 (1934 AD), in only the second year of Mohammad Zahir Shah's reign as King of Afghanistan. Zahir Shah ascended to the throne on 8 November 1933 at the age of 19, following the assassination of his father Mohammad Nadir Shah, and would go on to reign for nearly four decades — becoming the longest-serving ruler of Afghanistan since the founding of the Durrani Empire. The SH1313 date places this coin at the very opening chapter of that extraordinary reign.

Catalogued as KM-931, this type was struck in bronze and was produced from SH1312 through SH1316 (1933–1937), spanning the entire first phase of Zahir Shah's rule before a redesigned coinage series replaced it. At 25 Pul, this coin represented one quarter of an Afghani — a mid-tier denomination in everyday Afghan commerce of the 1930s that circulated widely and was rarely preserved.

This example displays a die crack, a minting characteristic caused by stress fractures developing in the die during the production run, leaving a raised line of metal on the coin's surface. Die cracks are a recognized category of mint error actively pursued by error coin collectors, adding a distinct layer of numismatic interest to an already historically significant early-reign issue. The combination of the scarce SH1313 date and the die crack variety makes this an appealing piece for the specialist.