![]() ![]() In games like these, they were not only used as the instruments of gaming, but the very bets you laid.Įven further back than this, it is known that playing cards existed in Persia and throughout the Arabian Peninsula as early as the 8th century. The cards are thought to have been accepted as a kind of paper currency. Apparently the deck was arranged in four suits of coins, more coins, strings of coins and myriads of strings of coins, with numerical values 1-9. This oldest of tangible artefacts is described as a paper money card. The earliest archaeological documentation of playing cards comes from 12th century China. By that time, however, playing-cards were well and truly vested in European culture and were as well known in Switzerland and Germany as they were along the Mediterranean coast. One of the earliest historical references comes in 1379 (Giovanni de Covelluzzo, City of Viterbo) and not surprisingly it is the form of a prohibition forbidding the use of cards on Sunday or the Sabbath. Playing Cards are believed to have arrived in Europe around the 1350’s. Their history begins way back in the murky dimness when many patterns were emerging in regions, and when many different Royal Households contended for eminence. Their place in playing cards was by no means a journey of certainty, and it was not without the possibility of other contenders.īut it was these Kings, Queens and Knights, this English household, dressed in their 16th century period garb that underwrites the standard of the Anglo-American playing card. One might not think twice as to why it is these characters who have come to contritely inhabit the ranks of the deck. The English pattern itself derives from a 15th century design that originated in Rouen, France. ![]() In the Royal Household are Kings, Queens and Jacks, and another fellow who plays a cameo in games here and there known as the Joker. The standard deck comprises 52 cards, in four suits each of thirteen ranks. ![]() It is upon their fall, their suits and their ranks that fortunes have been dashed and players been daunted. Playing Cards have existed for millennia and around them hundreds of games and conventions have been devised. ![]()
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