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25 Tögrög
| Issuer | Mongolian Trade and Industry Bank |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Value | 25 Tögrög (25 MNT) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette comprises a portrait of Damdiny Sükhbaatar (1893–1923), founding member of the Mongolian People's Party and commander of the partisan army during the 1921 Outer Mongolian Revolution, set against a fine guilloche underprint. The national coat of arms of the Mongolian People's Republic appears alongside the portrait, framed by traditional ornamental motifs. Inscriptions in classical Mongolian script and numerals identifying the denomination and issuing authority appear within the surrounding border. |
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| Reverse lettering | ᠪᠦᠭᠦᠳᠡ ᠨᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠᠮᠳᠠᠬᠤ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠠᠷᠠᠳ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ ᠬᠣᠷᠢᠨ ᠶᠢᠰᠦᠳᠦᠭᠡᠷ ᠣᠨ᠃ ᠬᠣᠷᠢᠨ ᠲᠠᠪᠤᠨ ᠲᠥᠭᠦᠷᠢᠭ ᠒᠕ (Translation: Twenty nine years of the Mongolian People's Republic, Twenty Five Tögrög, 25) |
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The Mongolian Trade and Industry Bank — Mongolyn Худалдаа Аж Үйлдвэрийн Банк — was the sole issuing authority for Mongolian currency through much of the early Soviet-aligned period, and its 1939 series was produced entirely by Goznak in Moscow, which handled banknote and security document production for the USSR and several allied states. Mongolia's financial infrastructure in this period was so thoroughly integrated with Soviet institutional frameworks that design, printing, and likely paper stock all originated in Russia with minimal local input.
The 1939 date places this note in the year of the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, the undeclared border war fought largely on Mongolian soil against Japan. Whether that conflict affected distribution of this series is not documented, but the timing is not incidental to understanding the political moment of its issue.