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1000 Tögrög Fidel Castro
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 1000 Tögrög |
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| Reverse description | Finely detailed portrait bust of Fidel Castro facing slightly left, depicted in his characteristic military cap adorned with a five-pointed star, and his distinctive full beard. To the upper right of the portrait, the legend 'FIDEL CASTRO' curves along the upper field in Latin script, accompanied by a vertical column of Mongolian script below it. A large five-pointed star appears in the lower right field. The date '2017' is inscribed in small characters at the base of the portrait. The design is executed in high-relief proof style with frosted portrait against a mirror field. |
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| Mintage | 2017 - Proof - 5,000 |
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Mongolia has issued collector coins honoring foreign political figures with some regularity, but the decision to mint a Castro piece in 2017 — the year following his death in November 2016 — places this squarely in the commemorative rush that followed. Mongolia and Cuba maintained warm diplomatic ties through the Soviet-aligned Non-Aligned Movement era, though the connection was never especially deep. At half a gram of four-nines gold, the practical value of the metal barely exceeds the face denomination.