Mongolia's commemorative gold program in the late 1990s was largely driven by foreign minting houses — this piece almost certainly produced by a European contractor rather than any domestic facility — targeting collector markets well outside Mongolia itself. The Year of the Tiger issue falls within the twelve-year lunar cycle, 1998 being the Earth Tiger year specifically, a distinction that matters to specialist collectors who pursue complete zodiac runs.
Mongolia's commemorative gold program in the late 1990s was largely driven by foreign minting houses — this piece almost certainly produced by a European contractor rather than any domestic facility — targeting collector markets well outside Mongolia itself. The Year of the Tiger issue falls within the twelve-year lunar cycle, 1998 being the Earth Tiger year specifically, a distinction that matters to specialist collectors who pursue complete zodiac runs.