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500 Tögrög Woodland Spirits Fox
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Technique | Colored, Milled (high relief) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the national emblem of Mongolia rendered in high relief at center, surmounted by the soyombo symbol and flanked by traditional Mongolian script (Todo bichig) characters. The cursive legend 'Mongol Bank' appears within the emblem device, with the denomination '500 ТӨГРӨГ' inscribed in large characters below. Conifer trees in high relief occupy the left and right fields, evoking a dense Mongolian forest landscape, while the inscription 'MONGOLIA 1oz .999 SILVER' runs along the lower rim. The coin's outer border is decorated with a continuous sawtooth pattern. |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin, Mongolian |
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The Woodland Spirits series was part of a broader wave of Mongolian commemorative issues produced in the mid-2010s targeting the collector market for high-relief, antique-finished silver coins. Mongolia's mint program expanded aggressively during this period, with the Bank of Mongolia licensing numerous designs to European minting houses — this piece was almost certainly struck by B.H. Mayer's Kunstprägeanstalt in Munich or a comparable contractor, as Mongolia has no sovereign mint of its own.
The fox holds particular significance in Mongolian shamanic tradition, associated with cunning spirits capable of shapeshifting.