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500 Tögrög Khubilai Khan and Marco Polo
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Diameter | 13.92 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Cyrillic/Mongolian |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued as part of Mongolia's early 2000s commemorative program capitalizing on Kublai Khan's historical stature, this piece conflates two figures whose actual relationship was more transactional than legendary. Marco Polo's accounts of the Mongol court in his Il Milione remain disputed — some historians have questioned whether he reached China at all, citing the absence of his name from Chinese imperial records of the period.
At 1.24 g of .9999 fine gold, this is a fractional bullion-adjacent issue rather than a circulation piece.