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| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The national emblem of Mongolia (soyombo) as used by the Bank of Mongolia occupies the upper central field, accompanied by the denomination below. The issuer's name appears in both Latin script and traditional Mongolian vertical script. Additional inscriptions in the field denote the country name, weight, fineness, and date of issue. |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Mongolian traditional script/Cyrillic |
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Mongolia's "Mystic Wolf" belongs to a broader run of high-denomination platinum issues the Bank of Mongolia has produced in collaboration with foreign minting houses — almost none of which circulate domestically, functioning instead as bullion-adjacent collectibles sold directly into the international numismatic market. The wolf carries specific totemic significance in Mongolian tradition, tied to the origin myth of the Borjigin clan from which Genghis Khan descended.
At one troy ounce of .9995 platinum, the face value of 25,000 tögrög represents a fraction of actual metal value — a deliberate fiction common to modern commemorative issues of this type.