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Cups, coins, clubs and swords.
Also known as: Cups coins clubs swords, Spanish suits, Baraja española, Latin suits
Spanish-suited cards use cups, coins, clubs and swords — the same four families as the Italian suits and as the minor arcana of the tarot, which shares their ancestry. Spanish decks conventionally have no tens, running from nine straight to the jack.
Denote the four suits of Spanish-suited playing cards: cups, coins, clubs and swords.
Contexts: History
Share their families with the Italian suits and with the tarot minor arcana, all deriving from the same Mamluk ancestor.
Contexts: History
Appear in decks conventionally lacking tens, so the sequence runs from nine to the jack, which is a real structural difference rather than a printing variation.
Contexts: History
Four suit marks: a stemmed goblet, a round coin, a knotted wooden cudgel, and a curved single-edged sword.
A fuller structured visual breakdown is not yet documented for this symbol.