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12 000 Tögrög Chinggis Khan
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia (Mongol Bank) |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Obverse description | At centre, the ornate emblem of the Bank of Mongolia — a soyombo symbol surmounted by a traditional Mongolian architectural motif — enclosed within a cartouche and flanked by laurel branches. The Cyrillic legend МОНГОЛ БАНК (Bank of Mongolia) appears in script within the emblem, with vertical Mongolian script inscriptions flanking the device on left and right. Below the emblem, the large numeral 12000 occupies the central field, with the denomination ТӨГРӨГ beneath. The outer legend along the lower rim reads MONGOLIA · 0.25 OZ.9999 GOLD · 1996, indicating the year of issue and metallic specification. The coin's border features a distinctive serrated or saw-tooth milled design. |
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| Reverse description | A finely detailed, high-relief bust portrait of Chinggis Khan facing slightly left, depicted wearing a traditional Mongolian hat and robes with a long mustache and flowing beard rendered in meticulous sculptural detail. A vertical Mongolian script inscription appears to the right of the portrait in the field. The mintmark 'Mo' of the Mexican Mint appears to the left of the bust. The legend CHINGGIS KHAN curves along the lower left, with the regnal dates 1162-1227 continuing along the lower right, all set within an ornate beaded and floral border encircling the entire design. |
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Issued the same year Mongolia held its first fully free parliamentary elections following the democratic transition of the early 1990s, this coin belongs to a wave of prestige gold issues through which the Mongol Bank asserted institutional credibility on international collector markets. Chinggis Khan's face had been politically suppressed during the Soviet era — his name was essentially forbidden in public discourse for decades — making his prominent placement on official coinage after 1990 a deliberate act of national reclamation rather than mere iconography.