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Five of Coins Tarot Card Meaning and Art Visconti A Tarot Deck Fragment

Designation

Five of Coins

About the Deck

Visconti A Tarot Deck Fragment

(aka Cary-Yale Tarot Deck or Visconti di Madrone Tarot Deck) One of the earliest Tarot Decks, the Cary Yale Visconti Deck is entirely gilded, with fine paintings upon it. Like the other Visconti decks, it features numerous heraldic devices. Unlike the other Visconti decks, it features a maid and a lady among the court cards.

Traditionally said to have been commissioned by Fillipo Maria Visconti for the 1441 marriage of Bianca Maria Visconti to Francesco Sforza I.

Provenance

Italy, c. 1441.

Tags

coins-5, five-of-coins, five, coins

According to Many Schools of Thought

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

Success coming that will balance loss.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Upright

Conquest of fortune by reason.

Reversed

Troubles in love.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Lover or Mistress, Love, Sweetness, Affection, Pure and Chaste Love

Reversed

Disgraceful Love, Imprudence, License, Profligacy.

Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings

parents' death will suddenly change your fate. If a man dies whom you first met on a Friday morning, you will have luck in the lottery; but if a woman in black is the first person you meet on a Saturday morning, you will have ill luck in the lottery.