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10 000 Tögrög Year of the Rabbit
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 1999 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 000 ᠲᠥᠭᠦᠷᠢᠭ᠌ ᠮᠤᠩᠭᠤᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ MONGOLIA 1 OZ 9999 GOLD (Translation: 10000 Tugriks Monggol Ulus (Mongolia)) |
| Reverse description | A finely detailed depiction of a leaping rabbit in left profile occupies the central field, rendered in naturalistic style amid a landscape setting of rocks, grasses, and bamboo stalks to the right and flowering plants to the left. In the upper right, the Mongolian script character for 'rabbit' and Chinese characters '兔年' (Year of the Rabbit) appear alongside the date '1999'. The denomination '10 000 TUGRIKS' is inscribed in two lines at the base of the design in Latin characters. The composition evokes the traditional East Asian lunar calendar artistic style characteristic of Chinese New Year commemorative coinage. |
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Mongolia's lunar series coins of the late 1990s were produced under contract by foreign mints as the Bank of Mongolia pursued hard currency revenue through collector issues — the domestic economy had little use for a gold coin priced far beyond average monthly wages. The Year of the Rabbit issue falls within a broader push by post-Soviet Mongolian institutions to establish the tögrög as a denominated vehicle for international numismatic trade rather than internal circulation.
The .9999 fineness places this among the purer gold issues of its period, matching the standard set by the Royal Canadian Mint's Maple Leaf rather than the older .900 fine norm.