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1000 Tögrög Yuri Dolgorukiy
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Value | 1000 Tögrög (Yuri Dolgorukiy) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a high-relief right-facing bust of Yuri Dolgorukiy (1099–1157), Grand Prince of Kiev and founder of Moscow, wearing a jewelled kalpak and richly ornamented princely robes with decorative clasps visible at the shoulder. To the left of the effigy, a colourised equestrian figure of Saint George slaying the dragon is applied in polychrome enamel, referencing the heraldic emblem of Moscow. The Cyrillic legend ЮРИЙ ДОЛГОРУКИЙ arcs along the upper border in gilt lettering, accompanied by the life dates 1099–1157. The date 2007 appears in the lower left field, and the design is enclosed by a raised beaded inner border. |
| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Yuri Dolgorukiy is credited as the founder of Moscow, with his statue still dominating Tverskaya Square in the city center. The choice of a Mongolian bank issuing a coin commemorating a medieval Rus' prince is not as strange as it first appears — Dolgorukiy ruled Suzdal during the 12th century, a period when the Rus' principalities and the steppe world maintained complex political and trade entanglements that would culminate, generations later, in Mongol conquest of the very cities he built.
The Bank of Mongolia issued several of these large-format silver pieces through the mid-2000s honoring foreign historical figures, part of a broader numismatic program aimed squarely at the collector export market.