No... even back then dinar dealers and their pumpers were writing crap like that to confuse people and put out misinformation about redenominations. That was written by a lightweight. So what Afghanistan had 4 different currencies. They could have just done a 1:1 exchange if that was the only reason. They lopped 3 zeros because there had been masive inflation and the exchnage rate had fallen to 50,000 to 1. They lopped 3 zeros and went to 50 to 1. Russia got their inflation under control before lopping... just like Iraq has.
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