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3 Tögrög
| Issuer | Mongolian Trade and Industry Bank |
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| Year | 1941 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by two large symmetrical guilloche rosettes, each centred with the Tögrög monogram and the Cyrillic denomination 'ГУРВАН ТӨГРӨГ' below. Mongolian traditional script text columns occupy the centre field, with a Cyrillic header 'Бүгүд Найрамдах Монгол Ард Улсин 31 он' at upper centre. Corner ornaments bearing the numeral '3' in traditional script appear at all four corners against a pale multicolour underprint. |
| Reverse lettering | ᠪᠦᠭᠦᠳᠡ ᠨᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠᠮᠳᠠᠬᠤ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠠᠷᠠᠳ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠭᠤᠴᠢᠨ ᠨᠢᠭᠡᠨ ᠣᠨ Бүгүд Найрамдах Монгол Ард Улсин 31 он ᠭᠤᠷᠪᠠᠨ ᠲᠥᠭᠦᠷᠢᠭ ᠓ ГУРВАН ТӨГРӨГ (Translation: Thirty one years of the Mongolian People`s Republic, Three Tögrög, 3) |
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The Mongolian Trade and Industry Bank — Mongolын Худалдаа Аж Үйлдвэрийн Банк — was effectively an arm of Soviet financial policy, and its 1941 series reflects that plainly. Goznak had been producing Mongolian currency since the 1920s, and the relationship was less a commercial printing contract than an extension of Soviet administrative control over the MPR's monetary system.
The 1941 date is significant. Mongolia was being drawn deeper into Soviet wartime logistics at precisely this moment, with the Khalkhin Gol victory of 1939 having consolidated the USSR's strategic grip on the country. Currency stability — and its production in Moscow — was part of that arrangement.