Mongolian banknote is another smallest banknote that I can find in my collection. This mongos banknotes is issued in 1993 with Genghis Khan Watermark and "Soemba" arms at upper center. The 10 mongo banknote color is in red-violet on pale orange with 2 archers at lower center on face and back. The 20 mongo banknote color is in brown on ochre and yellow brown with 2 athletes at lower center on face and back. The 50 mongo banknote color is in greenish black on blue and pale green with 2 horsemen at lower center on face and back. All this banknote size is around 40 mm x 90 mm.
The State of Mongolia, (formerly the Mongolian People’s Republic) a landlocked country in central Asia between Russia and the People's Republic of China, has an area of 604,250 sq. miles. (1,565,000 sq. km.) and a population of 2.26 million. Capital: Ulaan Baator. Animal herds and flocks are the chief economic asset. Wool, cattle, butter, meat and hides are exported.
In the chaos of the late twelfth century, a chieftain named Temüjin finally succeeded in uniting the Mongol tribes between Manchuria and the Altai Mountains. In 1206, he took the title Genghis Khan, and waged a series of military campaigns - renowned for their brutality and ferocity - sweeping through much of Asia, and forming the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous land empire in world history. Under his successors it stretched from present-day Poland in the west to Korea in the east, and from Siberia in the north to the Gulf of Oman and Vietnam in the south, covering some 33,000,000 km² (12,741,000 sq mi), (22% of Earth's total land area) and having a population of over 100 million people.
After Genghis Khan's death, the empire had been subdivided into four kingdoms or Khanates which eventually split-up after Möngke's death in 1259. One of the khanates, the "Great Khaanate", consisting of the Mongol homeland and China, became the Yuan Dynasty under Kublai Khan grandson of Genghis Khaan. He set up his capital in present day Beijing but after more than a century of power, the Yuan was replaced by the Ming Dynasty in 1368, with the Mongol court fleeing to the north. As the Ming armies pursued the Mongols into their homeland, they successfully sacked and destroyed the Mongol capital Karakorum among other cities, wiping out the cultural progress that was achieved during the imperial period and thus throwing Mongolia back to anarchy.
The empire dissolved in later centuries and in 1691 was brought under suzerainty of the Manchus, who had conquered China in 1644. Afterward the Chinese republican movement led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Manchus and set up the Chinese Republic in 1911. Mongolia, with the support of Russia, proclaimed their independence from China and, on March 13, 1921 a Provisional People’s Government was established and later, on Nov. 26, 1924 the government proclaimed the Mongolian People’s Republic.
MONETARY SYSTEM
100 Mongo = 1 Tugrik
Source: Wikipedia, Krause Publication Book.
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