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1000 Tögrög Peter I

Issuer Bank of Mongolia
Year 2007
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Weight 62.20 g
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Obverse lettering Монгол Банк ᠮᠤᠩᠭᠤᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ 1000 ТӨГРӨГ MONGOLIA 2 OZ .999 SILVER
(Translation: The Bank of Mongolia Monggol Ulus (Mongolia) 1000 Tögrög)
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Reverse lettering Пётр I Великий 1672-1725 ПI 2007
(Translation: Peter I the Great PI)
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Peter I appears here as part of Mongolia's long-running series of large-format silver issues featuring foreign historical figures — a program that has little to do with Mongolian history and everything to do with the global collector market for thematic silver rounds dressed as legal tender. Mongolia's central bank has issued dozens of such pieces since the 1990s, licensing foreign subjects with no particular editorial logic beyond commercial appeal.

Peter the Great's relevance to Mongolia is marginal at best, though Russian imperial expansion under his reign did reshape Central Asian power dynamics in ways that eventually touched the Mongolian steppe.

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