Unknown Coin With Strange Asian Like Writing | Mongolia

Mongolia- Manchu Script (like the mint names on Ching Dynasty Chinese cash)- year 15 (1925) value $22 XF to $40 Unc. Nice Coin.

TO add to what coinsnpaper said: the denomionation is 1 tugrik. The five words in the circular sector at the top of the reverse (bottom pic) are the name of the country, "Bugd Nairamdakh Mongol Ard Uls" - People's Republic of Mongolia. In 1925 Mongolia was a Communist puppet state, backed by the Soviet Union.

I'm not sure what the six words on either side of the soyombo, the Mongolian national symbol on the obverse, mean; given the country's ties to the USSR at the time I would assume it's the Mongolian equivalent of "Workers of the world unite", the standard Soviet slogan which appeared on 1 rouble coins the USSR was striking at the same time. These early Mongolian coins were struck in the Soviet Union and the tugrik was exactly the same weight and fineness as the rouble.

The coin is made of silver; one of the very few types Communist early silver coins, struck before they realised that striking coins out of real silver was not the best way to convince people that money was evil.