1000 Tögrög Khubilai Khan

Issued the year after Mongolia's first democratic elections took effect, this commemorative sits at an odd intersection of post-Soviet nation-building and a careful appeal to Western numismatic collectors hungry for exotic gold. Khubilai Khan was a deliberate choice — founder of the Yuan Dynasty and grandson of Chinggis, he represents the apex of Mongol imperial reach, from Korea to the Levant.

Mongolbank struck several gold commemoratives in this period through foreign minting arrangements, likely with the Leningrad or a European facility, as domestic striking infrastructure was essentially nonexistent in 1992.