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| Issuer | Mongolia |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Mongolian |
| Obverse lettering | 790 YEARS OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MONGOLIAN STATEHOOD ᠮᠤᠩᠭᠤᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ 1000 ᠲᠥᠭᠦᠷᠢᠭ᠌ 19 96 (Translation: Monggol Ulus (Mongolia) 1000 Tugriks) |
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Issued as part of Mongolia's wave of commemorative silver releases through the mid-1990s, a period when the newly post-communist government leaned heavily on Chinggis Khan as a symbol of national identity following decades of Soviet-imposed suppression of his image. Under the Mongolian People's Republic, public veneration of Chinggis had been actively discouraged — his name was largely absent from official culture until the late 1980s.
The Schön 163 attribution places this among a fairly well-documented run, though secondary market examples vary considerably in packaging completeness, which affects realized prices more than the coin itself warrants.