Catalog
20 000 Tögrög
| Issuer | Mongolbank (Bank of Mongolia) |
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| Year | 2009-2013 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents the State's Nine-Legged White Banner (Yisün Khölt Tsagaan Tug), the sacred standard traditionally housed in the State Ceremony Hall and ceremonially displayed at the Central Stadium during the annual Naadam National Festival. The banner is rendered against a decorative guilloche background with fine-line geometric underprint patterning, accompanied by denomination numerals and bilingual inscriptions in Cyrillic and traditional Mongolian script. |
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| Protection description | Chinggis Khaan portrait visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note |
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Mongolbank introduced the 20,000 Tögrög denomination in 2009 as the highest face value in Mongolian circulation at the time — a practical response to cumulative inflation that had eroded the purchasing power of smaller denominations over the preceding two decades. G+D's Leipzig facility has handled Mongolian banknote production across multiple series, giving this issue the same technical foundation as much of the post-socialist Tögrög family.
The security specification is relatively minimal for a high-denomination note of this period — watermark and thread, without the foil patches or color-shifting ink common on comparable issues elsewhere. Worth noting for collectors assessing authentication.