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Ace of Coins

One large coin nearly spans the card, a red shield at its center inside a broad gold border, flowering vines in the corners. The coins of this deck are stamped and burnished gold leaf, closer to actual florins than to drawn symbols, which is the quiet joke of the suit.

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