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500 Tögrög Year of the Dragon, with crystal
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The national emblem of Mongolia, the Soyombo, depicted centrally in high relief featuring the sacred Soyombo symbol atop a lotus flower with flanking dragons and the yin-yang symbol, all set within a radiating sunburst border. The denomination '500' appears at the top of the field, with the legend 'MONGOLIA' to the right and the Mongolian script inscription to the left. The inscription '1 OZ 999 SILVER' is placed in the lower field. A decorative meander (Greek key) pattern frames the entire design along the rim. |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Mongolian |
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Mongolia's dragon-year commemoratives from this period were part of a broader wave of collector-targeted silver issues that flooded the market around the turn of the millennium, many produced by European minting houses on behalf of smaller central banks. The Bank of Mongolia had little domestic minting infrastructure at the time, making these essentially export products dressed in national identity.
The applied crystal element was a novelty technique gaining traction with Swarovski-style embellishments in the late 1990s commemorative market — more sales strategy than craft tradition.