1000 Tögrög Fidel Castro

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.