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500 Tögrög Leonardo Da Vinci
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Value | 500 Tögrög |
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| Obverse lettering | Монгол Банк ᠮᠤᠩᠭᠤᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ 500 TӨГРӨГ MONGOLIA 25gr 925 SILVER (Translation: The Bank of Mongolia Monggol Ulus (Mongolia) 500 Tögrög) |
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| Reverse lettering | LEONARDO DA VINCI 1452-1519 GENIUS OF THE MILLENNIUM 1999 |
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Mongolia's late-1990s commemorative program produced a wave of bimetallic issues pairing gold-plated silver centers with outer silver rings — a format popular among mint contractors marketing collector coins to nations with limited numismatic tradition of their own. This piece was almost certainly produced under contract, likely through a European mint, with Mongolia's issuing authority serving primarily an administrative role.
Da Vinci's 1499 departure from Milan following the French invasion left many of his projects unfinished, a biographical irony that made him a recurring figure on collector coins of this period.