Tiger Dystrophy

harasha

Witness the poor tiger of India, so dynamic in 1947, but only a shadow of his former self in 2010.

Bailathacl

Mirrors what has been happening to the species in that intervening period....

cladking

My diagnosis is too much corn syrup and corn products in the diet.

This can make even Tony the Tiger docile and fat.

JamesMurray

Those look like lions ? A male lion in the first and female lioness in the second coin. Far be it from me to say..sure looks like lions though.

harasha

Though there remains a small population of Asiatic Lions in India, the feline on its coinage is the tiger.

Sapyx

The design on this coin, with the tree in the background, is indirectly derived from the gold mohur coinage of the East India Company: Example on Baldwins.

However, when the Reserve Bank of India copied the mohur coin design for their logo, they changed the lion to a tiger - the picture of the seal on Wikipedia clearly shows a striped felinoid.

JamesMurray

Thanks Sapyx , thats very interesting. For me it wasnt about the stripes and i could see how the cat under the tree could be a tiger , it's the other , the 1947 that just shouts lion at me.Its build , stance , dunno .. but its interesting there were Lions at one point and dies. I like both coins , i like big cats