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50 Tögrög Discovery of America - Columbus

Issuer Mongolia
Year 1992
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Diameter 38.7 mm
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Obverse script Latin/Mongolian
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Mongolia's 1992 commemorative program coincided with the global 500th anniversary wave surrounding Columbus's 1492 landfall, and Ulaanbaatar was hardly alone — dozens of nations with no historical connection to the Atlantic world issued silver rounds that year, most produced by contracted European mints for the collector market rather than any domestic circulation. This piece almost certainly never crossed a Mongolian counter.

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