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1000 Tögrög Pterosaur Gold
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | МongolBank ᠮᠤᠩᠭᠤᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ 1000 ТӨГРӨГ MONGOLIA 0.5 g .9999 GOLD (Translation: MongolBank Monggol Ulus 1000 Tögrög) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Mongolia's bullion and collector coinage program has leaned heavily into paleontology since the country's Gobi Desert ranks among the most productive fossil sites on Earth — Mongolian deposits have yielded pterosaur, theropod, and protoceratopsian specimens that rewrote entire chapters of Mesozoic research. This fractional half-gram issue belongs to a broader series capitalizing on that scientific identity.
At 0.5 grams, these pieces were struck in large enough quantities to function as accessible entry-level gold, though KM#381 sees relatively thin documentation in major auction archives.