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500 Tögrög Saiga Tatarica Mongolica
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic/Latin/Traditional Mongolian |
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| Reverse description | A highly detailed full-color depiction of a male Mongolian saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica mongolica) dominates the center, rendered in naturalistic color with its distinctive bulbous nose and ringed horns prominently displayed as it stands on a rocky outcrop amid a steppe landscape. A second saiga antelope is depicted in relief in the lower left field. In the upper right, a map outline of Mongolia with traditional Mongolian script inscription is engraved in the mirrored field. The curved legend 'SAIGA TATARICA MONGOLICA' arcs along the upper border, and the date '2011' appears in the lower exergue. |
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The saiga antelope depicted on this issue was, by 2011, already deep into one of the most dramatic population collapses in modern wildlife history. A bacterial outbreak in 2015 would later kill roughly 200,000 animals — about 62% of the global population — in under three weeks. Mongolia's subspecies, Saiga tatarica mongolica, occupies a range entirely within the country and faces pressure distinct from its Kazakh relatives, making it the subject of targeted domestic conservation legislation around the time this coin was issued.