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10 000 Tögrög Olympic Games - Atlanta 1996
| Issuer | Mongolia |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Weight | 31.10 g |
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| Obverse description | The national state emblem of Mongolia, depicting the soyombo symbol above a horseman on the landscape, encircled by a decorative wreath, occupies the central field. The legend MONGOLIA appears in Latin script along the upper rim, while the denomination 10000 is inscribed in large numerals below the emblem. Traditional Mongolian script (todo bichig) appears vertically to the right, reading the country name and denomination. The coin's border is decorated with a fine beaded rim. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Mongolia issued a series of gold commemoratives through the 1990s primarily for the international collector market, with most pieces seeing negligible domestic circulation given the country's per-capita income at the time. The Atlanta issue coincided with Mongolia's continued post-Soviet redefinition of its international presence — the country had competed under its own flag since 1964, but these commemorative programs were partly a revenue mechanism for a treasury still restructuring after the collapse of Soviet subsidies in 1991.
The .900 fineness places this outside the standard .999 modern bullion specification, a deliberate choice common to this Mongolian series that aligns it with pre-modern sovereign gold traditions rather than contemporary bullion coinage.