Catalog
50 Möngö
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse lettering | ᠮᠤᠩᠭᠤᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠕᠐ ᠮᠥᠩᠭᠥ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠠᠩᠬᠢ (Translation: Mongolia, 50 Möngö, Bank of Mongolia) |
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| Reverse lettering | МОНГОЛ УЛС 50 МӨНГӨ МОНГОЛБАНК (Translation: Mongolia, 50 Möngö, Bank of Mongolia) |
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The 50 Möngö was issued as Mongolia completed its transition away from Soviet-style central planning — the country had adopted a new constitution in 1992 and was rebuilding its financial infrastructure largely from scratch. Thomas De La Rue printed this and the associated series, a fairly standard arrangement for newly reforming economies lacking domestic security printing capacity.
At 90 × 45 mm, this is among the smallest banknotes De La Rue produced in that decade. The möngö subunit would effectively disappear from practical use within a few years as inflation eroded its purchasing power to nothing.