Tiger Tiger Looking Nice

This Chinese year of the tiger, coins just got friendlier, kinder and smilier in Singapore. The Lunar Tiger Collection designed by the Singapore Mint has this mega-carnivore looking a lot less predatory.

This Chinese year of the tiger, coins just got friendlier, kinder and smilier in Singapore. The Lunar Tiger Collection designed by the Singapore Mint has this mega-carnivore looking a lot less predatory. This is quite unlike 1998 and 1986, preceding years of the tiger. A report in China Post quotes the director of the Singapore Mint, who says, “Traditionally tigers are depicted as fierce creatures…but since we are emerging from a recession…people might not like it.” So now they’re using a design by artist Tan Seng Yong that has a family of the great cats ‘leaping forward harmoniously and leaving their problems behind.’  Meanwhile here in India, the back of our ten rupee note remains recession-unaffected. There’s still a Bengal tiger sitting there, baring its teeth.