From Touchstone TarotTM by Kat Black
King of Coins
Meanings
The executive. A man who enjoys the affluence his success has brought. He is trustworthy, reliable and approachable. A giver of good advice, and a generous benefactor when he thinks a cause is worthy.
Reversed (?)
Losing stock. If you value your worth in terms of money and possessions, what if these are lost? Who you are is not what you own, and markets will ever turn. You are more than your portfolio.
Description
A bearded man in fine clothes sits at a table scattered with pewter platters containing oysters and other shellfish. He wears a fur-trimmed cloak and a hat with a plumed feather. A money purse and silver coins sit in front of him on the table.
Artwork
- Coin: ANGELICO, Fra, Annunciation, 1433-34, Museo Diocesano, Cortona.
- Coin profile: BALDOVINETTI, Alessio, Portrait of a Lady in Yellow, c.1465, National Gallery, London.
- Chair, wall: CLAESZ, Pieter, Vanitas Still Life with the Spinario, 1628, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
- Body: HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger, Portrait of Sir Henry Guildford, 1527, Royal Collection, Windsor.
- Face: HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger, Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve (The Ambassadors), 1533, National Gallery, London.
- Feather: CECCO DEL CARAVAGGIO, The Flute Player, 1615-20, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
- Money, purse, coins: LINARD, Jacques, The Five Senses, 1638, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg.
- Opulent objects: HEDA, Willem Claesz., Still Life, 1637, Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp.
Members
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only king, in the Tarot of Marseilles, without a crown