Catalog
3 Tögrög
| Issuer | State Bank of the Mongolian People's Republic |
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| Year | 1966-1983 |
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| Currency | Tögrög (1925-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central guilloche rosette of interlocking multicoloured lathe-work incorporating an endless knot motif — a traditional Buddhist Soyombo-derived ornamental element — with the denomination numeral overlaid at centre. The date appears in a cartouche at the top, flanked by fine engine-turned border patterns, while the denomination in Cyrillic lettering runs across the centre in bold intaglio print. Vertical panels on both left and right margins carry the denomination in traditional Mongolian script, and ornamental corner pieces repeat the numeral in contrasting ochre tones. |
| Reverse lettering | 3 1983 ᠓ ᠭᠤᠷᠪᠠᠨ ᠲᠥᠭᠦᠷᠢᠭ ГУРВАН ᠓ ТӨГРӨГ ХЭРЭВ БАНКНЫ ТЭМДЭГТҮҮДИЙГ ХУУРАМЧААР ҮЙЛДВЭЛ ГЭМТ ЭТГЭЭДИЙГ ХУУЛЬ ЁСООР ХАРИУЦЛАГАД ТАТНА (Translation: Three Tögrög, Counterfeit of the banknotes is punishable by law) |
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Mongolia's 1966 banknote series — of which this 3 Tögrög is part — was produced during a period of total economic alignment with the Soviet Union, when the Mongolian People's Republic functioned essentially as a Soviet satellite state. The State Bank had no independent monetary policy to speak of; note issuance tracked Soviet-directed planning targets rather than domestic economic conditions.
The designers Ts. Minjuur and D. Tserenpil were among the first generation of trained Mongolian graphic artists, and their involvement marks a deliberate departure from the earlier practice of outsourcing plate design entirely to Soviet printing facilities. The series ran across seventeen years without reissue, which itself reflects how little general circulation pressure the denomination faced.