hist-games: Morrocan cards

[ROWEN STUFFER]

Greetings and salutations -

Some friends just sent me a few decks of cards from Morroco, but the 
decks are quite unusual and I wondered if anyone knew why. The suits I 
can understand. Swords, clubs, cups, and coins. The numbering, though, 
is quite unusual. They run ace to seven, there are no eights or nines, 
the tenth card is the page, eleven is the knight, twelve is the queen, 
there is no king. All three decks were sealed in shrink-wrap, so 
there's no chance of missing cards, and the oddities are common to all 
three decks.

Any thoughts?

    - Rowen