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1 Tögrög Karl Marx
| Issuer | Mongolia |
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| Year | 1988 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the state emblem of the Mongolian People's Republic (1960–1992 type), depicting a horseman before a rising sun, flanked by wheat sheaves bound with a ribbon, and surmounted by a five-pointed star. The Cyrillic legend БҮГД НАЙРАМДАХ МОНГОЛ АРД УЛС curves along the upper periphery. The denomination НЭГ ТӨГРӨГ is inscribed in large Cyrillic characters in the lower field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark the 170th anniversary of Marx's birth, this was part of a broader Mongolian commemorative program in the late 1980s that mirrored Soviet-bloc ideological priorities even as those priorities were beginning to collapse elsewhere. Mongolia remained a satellite state under Jambyn Batmönkh, and the coin appeared just one year before the pro-democracy protests of 1989 that would ultimately end one-party rule. The aluminium bronze alloy was a deliberate choice for commemorative weight and presence rather than circulation economy.