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10 000 Tögrög Year of the Ox
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Value | 10 000 Tögrög |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Mongolian |
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| Reverse lettering | 1997 |
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Mongolia's Year of the Ox issue was part of a broader lunar series produced in the mid-1990s as the country sought hard currency earnings following the collapse of Soviet subsidies that had propped up the Mongolian economy through the 1980s. The Bank of Mongolia turned aggressively to commemorative bullion coinage during this period — effectively monetizing international collector demand while domestic circulation coinage remained chronically underfunded.
The .9999 fineness matches the troy ounce weight exactly, placing this squarely in the investment-grade bullion category rather than a purely numismatic issue.