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1000 Tögrög Tiger
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Weight | 7.77 g |
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| Obverse description | At centre, the Soyombo national symbol of Mongolia rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. To the right, the country name in traditional Mongolian vertical script; the Latin legend MONGOLIA appears along the right border. The denomination 1000 is inscribed in large numerals at the lower centre, with an additional Mongolian script character for Tögrög below. |
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| Reverse description | A highly detailed, finely engraved frontal portrait of a tiger's head dominates the field, rendered with meticulous relief work depicting the striped fur, prominent whiskers, bared teeth, and facial musculature. Each eye is set with a small inset diamond (combined 0.1 carat), lending the design a striking three-dimensional quality. The date 1999 appears in Arabic numerals at the lower centre of the field, beneath the tiger's chin. |
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Mongolia issued several small-denomination gold pieces in the late 1990s under a broader wildlife and cultural series, with the Tiger coin appearing as part of a coordinated push to attract collector markets in East Asia — where tiger imagery carries particular commercial weight. The 1999 date places it squarely in the post-Soviet transition period, when the Bank of Mongolia was aggressively expanding its numismatic program as a hard-currency revenue stream.
The multiple KM references suggest this type was catalogued under more than one number across Krause editions, a not uncommon problem with Mongolian issues of this era where documentation lagged behind mintage.