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2500 Tögrög Year of the Ox
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Currency | Tögrög (1925-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 2500 ₮ MONGOLIA 5 OZ 999 SILVER |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Mongolia's lunar series coins of this period were produced by outside minting contractors — the Bank of Mongolia has no domestic facility capable of striking large-format silver pieces to this specification. The 2009 ox issue falls within a wave of collector-market lunar coins that flooded the market from smaller issuing nations in the late 2000s, many sharing production lines with issues from Palau, Niue, and similar program issuers.
The ox holds particular weight in the Mongolian twelve-year cycle, associated with agricultural labor and pastoral endurance — values with direct economic resonance in a country where herding still accounts for a significant portion of rural livelihood.