It is also the only tarot deck to use the Portuguese variation of the Latin suits of cups, coins, swords, and clubs which died out in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
It is also the only tarot deck to use the Spanish variation of the Latin suits of cups, coins, swords, and clubs. It also maintains vestigial features of the extinct Portuguese pattern which died out in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.