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500 Tögrög Leonardo Da Vinci
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Weight | 0.5 g |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic/Mongolian |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a finely engraved rendition of Leonardo da Vinci's celebrated 'Vitruvian Man', showing the male figure with arms and legs extended in two superimposed positions inscribed within both a square and a circle, faithfully reproducing the compositional geometry of the original c. 1490 drawing. The design is rendered in high relief against a polished field. The curved legend 'LEONARDO DA VINCI' arcs along the upper periphery, with the birth and death dates '1452 – 1519' inscribed on a straight baseline immediately below. The issue year '2006' appears in the exergue at the base of the coin. |
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This piece belongs to a wave of fractional gold issues Mongolia produced in the mid-2000s, licensing European cultural figures as subjects — a revenue strategy common among smaller central banks seeking collector premiums well above melt value. The series had no domestic cultural connection to justify the subjects chosen; Leonardo was simply marketable.
At 0.5 grams of .9999 gold, the coin's numismatic premium over spot has always dwarfed its intrinsic content — exactly the business model intended.