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500 Tögrög Chipmunk
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Value | 500 Tögrög |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a detailed landscape composition depicting a coniferous forest scene with prominent fir trees occupying the left and right fields. At center, within a circular cartouche, appears the Mongolian state emblem (Soyombo) above the script legend 'Mongol Bank' rendered in stylized cursive lettering. Flanking the central cartouche are vertical Mongolian traditional script (Bichig) legends. In the lower central field, the denomination '500 ТӨГРӨГ' is inscribed in bold raised lettering, with the legend 'MONGOLIA 1oz .999 SILVER' along the lower rim. The design is executed in high-relief proof finish with a finely reeded border. |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin, Mongolian |
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Mongolia has no native chipmunk species. The Siberian chipmunk (Tamias sibiricus) does range into parts of adjacent Russia and northern China, but its appearance on a Mongolian commemorative places this squarely in the modern collector-bullion market rather than any expression of national natural history — a pattern that has defined the Bank of Mongolia's silver program since the early 2000s, when the institution began licensing wildlife and novelty themes almost entirely for export to Western and Asian collector markets.