Show playing cards as cash A fortune on a card had unique meaning for early residents of the historic french canadian city of montreal in the latter part of th the e eighteenth century real money was so scarce that playing cards were used as commercial tender the signatures of three administrators of the french colony being inscribed inscribe d on an the back to make such money legal the playing card money together with a land transfer written P on the back of a jack of hearts is among the exhibits in the mccord MCC ord national museum of mcgill university |