10 Tögrög

The 10 Tögrög has occupied a peculiar position in Mongolian circulation — technically legal tender through most of the 2000s, but worth so little in real purchasing power that it functioned more as litter than currency. By the mid-2010s, a single unit bought essentially nothing in Ulaanbaatar, yet the note continued to be printed and issued across the full run of this series rather than being demonetized or replaced by a coin equivalent.

Mongolia never completed a full decimalization-era coinage reform that would have retired low-denomination notes in favor of coins, leaving this awkward paper unit in limbo for nearly two decades.