500 Tögrög The Straits Times

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.