1000 Tögrög Yuri Dolgorukiy

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.