Balls, leaves, handcuffs and unicorns. The exhibition in Jáchymov presents the oldest miners’ playing cards found
In the Latin Library in the basement of the Jáchymov Town Hall there is an exhibition The Story of Cards. It presents the form of the oldest miners’ cards found. The originals come from a 16th-century book that was donated to the library in 1521. In addition to the classic symbols – balls, leaves, uppers, kings and aces – they also depict mining attributes such as a handcuff, a thresher and a unicorn.
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