Notes on some of the symbols found on the punch-marked coins of Hindustan, and on their relationship to the archaic symbolism of other races and distant lands

37. A Rhinoceros. Fig. 13. The rhinoceros is rare on these coins, and in both the figures given
by Thomas (J. A. S. B,, 1865, PL XI), the horn, though undoubtedly belonging to this animal, yet makes an unnaturar curve forwards. The species intended is probably R. Sondaicus, the lesser one-horned rhinoceros, which at the date of these coins was probably found over the entire peninsula, and so late as Baber’s time was hunted and killed by arrows and spears, in the Punjab, where it has long since been exterminated. On one copper coin in my own possession, the forepart of an animal is reresented, which undoubtedly is intended for a rhinoceros.