250 Tögrög Year of the Rooster

Mongolia's large-format silver issues of the early 1990s were produced almost entirely for the export collector market, coinciding with the country's chaotic transition from Soviet satellite to independent republic — a period when hard currency from overseas coin sales was genuinely useful to the new government. The 1993 Rooster belongs to a series of lunar zodiac pieces struck in this format, with production contracted to foreign mints as Mongolia lacked the domestic infrastructure for coins of this specification.