ihcoyc said:
There may be some attempt at creating divinatory symbolism in the Minors, though it's hard to see what you could make of the sequence of Roman emperors in the suit of coins.
In reference to ihcoyc's long-ago post, I thought I would mention something that caught my attention today even though it seems to be a very tenuous link, so please forgive me for that
I subscribe to the Merriam-Webster word of the day emails (which I hardly ever look at!) Today the word was "solidus" and something made me read the description that followed:
"Call it a solidus, or call it a slash/diagonal/slant/virgule -- whatever you call it, you are bound to run into this useful mark with some regularity. These days, one place the mark is commonly seen is in Internet addresses, but the history of the word "solidus" takes us back to a time well before computers. The ancient Roman emperor Constantine the Great borrowed the Latin term for "solid" ("solidus") for the gold coin that was the successor to the aureus. And in Medieval Latin, "solidus" designated the shilling. Before the introduction of decimal coinage, abbreviations of the shilling ("s," "sh," or "shil") were used. Eventually, the abbreviations were replaced with the simple symbol "/," which became known as a solidus."
I don't really think there's any great significance here, but the fact that the same word was used for Roman gold coins and to describe something "solid" (which is a term often connected with the suit of coins or pentacles), just caught my attention. Well, it's something I didn't know anyway
Pip