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500 Tögrög Wild horse
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 500 Tögrög |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a Przewalski's wild horse (Equus ferus) in full gallop to the right, rendered in vivid polychrome color printing against a frosted silver background featuring a stylized rocky steppe landscape. The horse is shown with a chestnut-brown coat, short erect mane, and prominent musculature, conveying strength and freedom. The Latin binomial legend 'EQUUS FERUS' is inscribed in arched form along the upper right field. The issue date '1996' appears in the lower exergue. The highly polished mirrored field provides a striking cameo contrast to the colorized central motif. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Mongolia's wild horse coinage of the 1990s emerged during a period of acute economic contraction following the collapse of Soviet subsidies, which had funded roughly a third of the Mongolian state budget through the late 1980s. The Bank of Mongolia turned aggressively to collector issues during this decade as a hard-currency revenue stream — the domestic tögrög was largely unconvertible and inflation had gutted purchasing power.
KM#133 is part of a wildlife series that coincided with renewed international attention to the Przewalski's horse reintroduction program, which by 1996 had returned captive-bred animals to Hustai Nuruu after the species had been extinct in the wild for decades.