The feathers in his hair symbolize folly. The dog nipping at his leg suggests the Fool's lowly station, as does his ragged tunic. His simplicity exempts him from all judgment and from all dictates of custom. The two of coins, especially in decks of the Marseilles family, often bears a scroll giving the name of the cardmaker, perhaps with place and date as well. The decision to preserve this old custom presented an interesting design challenge, as the Cartae Triumphorum is a modern creation intended to give the illusion of antiquity.
Coins are the suit of wealth, good fortune, and the merchant class.
With 2 being the number of balance and alternatives, the 2 of coins may naturally suggest a financial crossroads or a juggling of commitments. The high-numbered cards of batons and swords are geometrically complex and difficult to design so that the suit symbols are pleasingly arranged but still easily counted. The curved swords, unlike the straight batons, intersect in two places, creating two diamond-shaped lattices in the design. Symbolically, swords obviously represent violence and conflict, but also elitism, sophistication, nobility, and knightly discipline and etiquette. Hence swords cards are often cards of conflict concealed behind politics or professionalism.