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Yve Lepkowski | Art & Crafts

The Suit of Coins in Clown Town Tarot

Here, you can see the suit of Coins from Clown Town, all together. Click on the link in a card’s caption to see the guidebook entry, including the larger image and the full image description.

About the Suit

The suit of Coins is typically associated with elemental Earth. What’s more, the Camoin-Jodorowsky deck (which inspired Clown Town) links each minor suit with one of the creatures from the four corners of the World card – and Coins gets the bull. From this, the natural choice was rodeo clowns! More generally, this suit is frontier-themed. Rodeo clowns have to do some things other than being chased by bulls, after all. The mission of the rodeo clown and the pioneer are essentially the same: don’t get killed. And that is central to the material and physical focus of Coins.

The Cards

Court Cards

A proud rodeo clown holding up a gold coin.
Page of Coins
A rodeo clown holding a rifle and a coin.
Queen of Coins
A rodeo clown sits with legs crossed on a barrel, holding a coin and a flag.
King of Coins
A smiling rodeo clown holding a coin rides on a leaping bull.
Knight of Coins

Numbers

A clown stands in the desert, roping a gigantic coin in a lasso over his head.
Ace of Coins
Two clowns in uniform sweeping up banana peels and coins.
Two of Coins
Three coins among the bones of a clown in the desert.
Three of Coins
A mustached clown in a white suit and ten-gallon hat stands with his hands on his hips in the middle of four oil rigs in a desert landscape.
Four of Coins
A smiling clown holds up a rattlesnake over a hole full of coins in the desert.
Five of Coins
With legs crossed, a clown leans back casually against a barrel, spitting three sunflower seeds in an arc in the air.
Six of Coins
A smiling clown in a dress and bonnet sits in a covered wagon moving through the desert.
Seven of Coins
A clown aims a rifle at an arrangement of targets on a blue curtain. Another clown peeks out from between the curtains in the middle of the targets.
Eight of Coins
A clown bends down to pick up coins as a bull comes up behind him.
Nine of Coins
Two smiling clowns ride away from the viewer on horseback toward a red setting sun.
Ten of Coins
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