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Talk:Card money

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A fact from Card money appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 April 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the French paid their soldiers in playing cards? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Card money.

• "Wan Bigi Karta", Central Bank of Suriname review of card money

• France

The introduction has this red-linked term, which doesn't appear anywhere else in Wikipedia or in a Google search (except in the context of the Ford Motor Company). I think it should probably be 'fiat money' but does anyone know differently? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.244.72.5 (talk) 10:15, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Twas vandalism, fixed now. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:45, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A number of similarities: 1) Fleur-de-lis looks similar to a club. 2) Royalty pictured on cards reminiscent of pictures of specific people on paper money. etc. Terry Thorgaard (talk) 13:42, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• No sources discuss this explicitly, but I'd doubt it. Suit (cards) tells us that the now-common French playing card suits were present in France in 1480 (long before card money was introduced). Versions of the King, Queen, and Jack can be traced back to around that period as well. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:47, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I also note that the article on playing cards suggests that playing cards were originally paper money. Perhaps this theory should be referenced in the current article. Terry Thorgaard (talk) 13:57, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• A possibility, though it strikes me as a different subject. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:01, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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