What's the story behind a deck of playing cards?

A little unclear actually. Its pretty narrowed down to China and England for inventing them, depends how you want to think about it.The first forms of chinese currency was a little like cards actually but if you mean the traditional cards you can pick up for like a buck then credit probably should go to england. I could rant but instead...


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