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25 000 Tögrög Camel

Issuer Bank of Mongolia
Year 1996
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Currency Tögrög (1925-date)
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Reverse lettering CAMELEUS FERUS 1996
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Mongolia's 1996 bullion program coincided with the country's difficult post-Soviet transition, when the Bank of Mongolia was actively courting foreign hard currency through numismatic exports. The Bactrian camel issues from this period were targeted squarely at the international collector market, with distribution handled largely through European dealers rather than domestic channels.

The .9999 fineness places this issue among the purest gold coinage Mongolia produced in the 1990s — a specification chosen to compete directly with established bullion programs from Perth and Vienna rather than reflecting any domestic minting tradition.

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