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5 Tögrög
| Issuer | State Bank of the Mongolian People's Republic |
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| Year | 1966-1981 |
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| Value | 5 Tögrög (5 MNT) |
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| Reverse description | The central design is dominated by an elaborate multicolour guilloche rosette composed of interlocking lathe-work bands in gold, green, and rose tones, incorporating a stylised Buddhist eternal knot motif at its core. The denomination numeral 5 appears in each corner, with the date 1966 set within a cartouche at the top centre. Vertical panels on either side carry the denomination in traditional Mongolian script, and a fine engine-turned underprint covers the entire field. |
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| Protection description | Circles forming a 6-petaled flower-like pattern |
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Mongolia's 1966 banknote series was designed entirely by domestic artists — Ts. Minjuur and D. Tserenpil — a deliberate assertion of cultural independence within the Soviet orbit, at a time when many satellite-state currencies were effectively farmed out to Goznak or other bloc printing houses. Whether Goznak ultimately printed this series is a separate question; the design credit, unusually, stayed Mongolian.
The series ran across fifteen years without a redesign, which points to extreme monetary stability — or, more accurately, the kind of price rigidity that comes with a fully centrally planned economy where the tögrög's domestic purchasing power was administratively fixed.