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Playing cards are thought to have originated in China, and to have
spread to Europe during the thirteenth century. The first European
playing cards had four suits – coins, sticks, swords, and
cups. Today’s standard suits (hearts, clubs, spades, and diamonds)
originated in France, and are now used across the world. These cards
from Mexico, using the early European suits, were collected in the
late nineteenth century.
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database record 1892.14.9
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