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1000 Tögrög Panthera
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#237 |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic/Latin/Mongolian |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued as part of Mongolia's wildlife conservation series at the turn of the millennium, this gold piece was produced through the State Mint of Mongolia during a period when the Bank of Mongolia was actively expanding its commemorative program into international collector markets. The .583 fineness — 14-karat gold — was a deliberate choice to keep production costs accessible while still qualifying as a gold issue, a common approach among smaller national mints targeting mid-range collectors rather than bullion buyers.
The snow leopard (*Panthera uncia*) depicted is native to the Altai mountain range of western Mongolia, where population surveys in the late 1990s estimated fewer than 1,000 individuals remained in the country.