Part of Mongolia's aggressive commemorative program of the late 1990s, when the country flooded the market with small-format gold issues timed to the Sydney Games. The series was produced largely for the collector trade rather than any domestic circulation, a pattern common to several Central Asian nations seeking hard currency through numismatic exports during that period.
Part of Mongolia's aggressive commemorative program of the late 1990s, when the country flooded the market with small-format gold issues timed to the Sydney Games. The series was produced largely for the collector trade rather than any domestic circulation, a pattern common to several Central Asian nations seeking hard currency through numismatic exports during that period.