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It’s a Breeze for Mongolia’s New Commemorative Banknote

The Bank of Mongolia has issued a limited edition 5,000 tugrik commemorative banknote to mark the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the central bank and the strengthening of the modern banking system in Mongolia. The banknotes are in the same design as the circulating 5000 tugrik but include a number of new security features.

For example, the Soyombo (Mongolia’s national symbol) on the front of the note has been printed with UV visible offset in three colours, and the anniversary logo along with the image of a horseman in the lower right hand corner appear in SPARK® Live with Truspin effect.

There is also a tactile feature with six embossed lines for visually impaired people on the right and left edges of the banknotes. On the reverse of the note is a BREEZE® machine readable micro-optics security thread from Crane.

With the exception of the 1 tugrik, the banknotes all feature a portrait of either Damdin Sükhbaatar, the leader of the 1921 revolution, on the lower denominations, or Genghis Khan on the higher denominations. The design of the current series dates to the 1990s, but a new series was issued in the early 2000s and there have been several subsequent upgrades.