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250 Tögrög Saiga Antelope
| Issuer | Mongolbank (Bank of Mongolia) |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | МОНГОЛУЛС 1993 (Translation: Mongolia) |
| Reverse description | Two saiga antelopes (Saiga tatarica) are depicted in naturalistic relief against a steppe landscape with a rocky escarpment in the background. One animal stands in profile facing left in the upper left field, while a second grazes with lowered head in the lower right field, conveying a sense of movement and habitat. The curved legend ENDANGERED WILDLIFE arcs along the upper border in Latin characters. The denomination 250 ТӨГРӨГ is inscribed in two lines at the lower left of the field. A beaded border frames the entire design. |
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Mongolia launched a wildlife conservation coin series in the early 1990s partly in response to international pressure over the collapsing saiga population on the Central Asian steppe — numbers had been declining sharply due to unregulated hunting following the dissolution of Soviet oversight. The series was produced under contract by a foreign mint, as Mongolia had no domestic striking capacity for refined silver issues of this specification.
The saiga antelope was classified as vulnerable by the early 1990s; it would later be uplisted to critically endangered after a series of catastrophic die-offs, including one in 2015 that killed roughly 200,000 animals in under three weeks.