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500 Tögrög The Straits Times
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Value | 500 Tögrög |
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| Obverse script | Mongolian/Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | SINGAPORE 1845 1995 THE STRAITS TIMES 150 YEARS |
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Issued under Mongolia's mid-1990s commemorative program, which produced a remarkable volume of themed silver pieces aimed squarely at the international collector market rather than domestic circulation. This particular coin honors the Straits Times, the Singapore-based broadsheet founded in 1845, making it an unusual pairing — a landlocked Central Asian nation commemorating a Southeast Asian newspaper on a coin its own citizens would rarely handle or spend.
The series Mongolia ran through this period was largely contract-struck and distributed through overseas dealers, with Bank of Mongolia lending its issuing authority to topics chosen largely for export appeal.