800 Tögrög Olympic Games 2000 - Shooter

Part of a Mongolian Olympic preview series issued two years ahead of the Sydney Games, these small gold pieces were produced speculatively for the collector market rather than any circulating monetary purpose. Mongolia had virtually no tradition of gold coinage in the modern era, making the late 1990s bullion-adjacent commemorative run an anomaly driven more by hard currency revenue than numismatic heritage.

The 3.11 g weight is no accident — it matches one-tenth troy ounce, the internationally marketable unit that made these viable for export sales.