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| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 1200 Tögrög |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 1996 Mo - - 10,000 1996 Mo - Proof - 10,000 |
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Issued the same year Mongolia marked the 830th anniversary of Chinggis Khan's birth — a date the Mongolian government has promoted officially since the post-Soviet reassertion of national identity in the early 1990s. Under communist rule, public veneration of Chinggis Khan had been actively suppressed by Soviet-aligned authorities who viewed him as a feudal symbol incompatible with Marxist historiography. The 1990 democratic transition reversed that policy almost immediately.
The .999 fineness and modest weight place this firmly in the commemorative bullion category that the Bank of Mongolia began issuing aggressively through the mid-1990s, largely targeting foreign collector markets rather than domestic circulation.