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Well, this is rather interesting. I won a copy of the Messis Summa Cartomanzia 184 from an eBay seller in Italy. My deck also has the number 0055 on card 78! The number is really hard to see though becauselunakasha said:Thanks, Umbrae!Umbrae said:go to the ace of disks and tell us what number is below the big coin
The number is 0055.
Luna
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is printed(?) over it.
Comparing this new deck to both my Cagliostro and my Cartomanzia 184, the writing in the pentacle on card 78 says "CAGLIOSTRO TAROT" in bold around the yellow part and "MADE IN ITALY" at the top arc of the white circle and "S.A. MODIANO TRIESTE" on the bottom arc. And everything on the cards is in English just like my Cagliostro. The writing in the pentacle on card 78 in the Cartomazia 184 is in Italian. It's all in regular font and all in the yellow band - at the top arc it says, "FABBRICA CARTE DA GIUOCO" and at the bottom arc, it says, "S.A. MODIANO TRIESTE".
Looking closer at the various editions, the number on card 78 is closer to the bottom of the circle on the Caglistro and closer to the center of the space between the bottom of the circle and the bottom of the card on both the Cartomanzia 184 and the Messis Summa. The Cagliostro has the same Distributed By info that's on my Messis Summa, so I'm guessing USG shifted the number up in the Cagliostro to accomodate the additional info. The number in the Cagliostro is also in black whereas it's blue on both the Cartomanzia and the Messis Summa.
Back in post 71, lunakasha described her cards and booklet as being Italian. The version I just got is in English, but otherwise appears to be the same as the version she asked about. And they both have the same number on card 78.
Is it possible that both the Italian and English versions of the deck would've been printed in the same run and that's why they have the same number on card 78?
Rodney