Time Period: 1911-1925

Timeline

  • 20.04.1921
  • Issuance of a 6% government bond (called "Baga Bolzoot") by the Bogd Khaan government in denominations of 100, 50, 25, 10 "Mongolian Dollars" of 0.7 Chinese Taels fine silver, redeemable by 20.11.1921
  • 24.11.1921
  • Mongolian-Russian treaty on a loan of 1 million Russian Rubles (or 0.5 million Chinese Taels fine silver) for the creation of a Mongolian currency in the amount of 3.5 million "Mongolian Dollars"
  • late 1921
  • Production of paper money of 25, 10, 5, 3, 1, ½ "Mongolian Dollars" of 0.7 Chinese Taels fine silver; brought to Mongolia from Russia in late 1924, but not issued
  • 01.07.1924
  • Issuance of Mongolian stamps denominated in Dollar = 100 Cents


Time Period: 1925-

Currency: Mongolian Tugrik (Tögrög)


Timeline

  • 02.06.1924
  • Resolution of the Council of Peolpe's Commissars of the USSR on the creation of the Mongolian Bank for Trade and Industry under joint Russian-Mongolian ownership; effective immediately
  • 25.02.1925
  • Government resolution on the creation of a national currency; effective 01.12.1925
  • 09.12.1925
  • Start of currency exchange:
    - 09.12.1925: Start of issuance of the new banknotes and coins
    - 31.12.1926: Demonetization of the circulating currencies at a rate of 1 "Mongolian Dollar" = 1 Mongolian Tögrög, 1 Chinese Dollar (silver) = 0.88 Mongolian Tögrög.
  • ??.04.1954
  • Government resolution on the transformation of the Trade and Industry Bank into the State Bank after the Soviet shares had been transferred to the Mongol state; effective immediately

Valuation Regimes

  • 1925-1947
  • Fixed rate against Soviet Ruble (1924)
  • 1947-1960
  • Fixed rate against Soviet Ruble (1947)
  • 1961-1991
  • Fixed rate against Soviet Ruble (1961), additional non-commercial and commercial rates
  • 1991-1993
  • Fixed rate against US Dollar
  • 1993-
  • Variable rate

Rate Arrangements

  • 01.12.1925
  • Fixed
  • Soviet Ruble (1924) at 1 : 1
  • -
  • 16.12.1947
  • Fixed
  • Soviet Ruble (1947) at 1 : 1
  • ±0.0%
  • 01.01.1961
  • Fixed
  • Soviet Ruble (1961) at 1 : 4.44
  • ±0.0%
  • 01.07.1991
  • Fixed
  • US Dollar at 1 : 40 - Official Rate
  • -91.7%
  • 01.01.1993
  • Fixed
  • US Dollar at 1 : 150 - Official Rate
  • -73.3%
  • 27.05.1993
  • Variable
  • initially: US Dollar at 1 : 395
  • -62.0%


End-year Forex Rates (Units per US Dollar)