Dodal, linked reproduction
Neuf de Deniers
Jean Dodal’s Marseille pack · Lyon, 1701–1715.
Read the BnF catalogue record ↗The result and the conditions around it
Look beyond the number of coins to the enclosure, plants and arrangement that accompany them.
Start with the pictures
Nine of Pentacles
Pamela Colman Smith · 1922 printing, p. 265
Open the source scan page ↗Notice what changes
Dodal
Neuf de Deniers
Nine coins form a symmetrical group with one central coin between four surrounding pairs. A green cross-like plant form and curved stems occupy the gaps.
Smith
Nine of Pentacles
A figure stands among vines and pentacles with a bird perched on one raised hand. A small snail appears near the lower border.
Harris
Nine of Disks · 9
Three overlapping coloured disks occupy the centre, surrounded by six smaller marked circles. Coloured rays divide the background into angular sections.
Open Harris’s painting and reference page ↗Now read the authors
Waite’s explanation
Waite suggests prosperity within an extensive domain, while leaving its ownership tentative. His meanings emphasize discernment, safety and accomplishment.
Crowley’s explanation
Crowley names Gain and relates Venus in Virgo to material benefit. He distinguishes a central group of three from an outer six and describes the result as combining favourable circumstances with management.
Which surrounding conditions help make the central result possible?
Write one thing you can point to in the image, one interpretation from a named author, and one inference of your own. Keeping the three separate gives you something useful to revisit.
Sources and image credits
The Dodal cards are one early-eighteenth-century Marseille witness. The black-and-white Smith plates come from the 1922 Rider reprint, whose title verso lists first publication in 1910. Colours in later editions can differ.
Foolmade supplies the linked Dodal reproductions. Its surrounding commentary is not the basis for our historical claims. These images are linked externally; the Smith illustration reuses the public-domain source scan with its full page context.
Harris’s paintings are linked on their host’s reference pages. Crowley’s text is the separately identified Thelemagick transcription of The Book of Thoth. Neither a modern reproduction nor a transcription replaces examination of the original artwork or edition.