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            "value": "These cards comprise a set which could be used for playing \u0101s, a game which became popular in Iran during the Qajar dynasty (1785 to 1925). \u0100s replaced ganjafa, which was the card game associated with the Safavid dynasty. \n\nCards used for playing \u0101s are distinguished from each other by five ground colours. They are ranked as follows starting with the highest: black: \u0100s (the Ace); green: \u0160\u0101h (the Shah); yellow: Bibi (the Queen); golden yellow: Sarb\u0101z (the Jack); and red: Lakk\u0101t (the Harlot, the lowest in value).\n\nThe faces of the Horniman cards (nn16137) are decorated in a style typical for \u0101s cards: images are framed by medallions with foliate decoration in the corners. The \u0101s is represented by a lion and the human-faced sun (\u1e34or\u0161id-\u1e35\u0101nom) , a motif chosen by the Qajar Dynasty as their badge. The \u0161\u0101h is shown in a European-style officer\u2019s uniform. The bibi is shown admiring a flower. The sarb\u0101z is represented by a soldier with a musket in a European-style uniform with frogging and a tufted(?) cap bage.  The lowest suit, the lakk\u0101t, is represented by a woman drinking from a wine glass.\n\nThe use of European uniforms for the shah and the sarb\u0101z\u2019s costumes reflects increasing European influence over the organisation, training and equipment of Iran\u2019s military during the nineteenth century. \n\nThe Encyclopaedia Iranica tells us that:\n\u201cThe rules [of \u0101s] are similar to those of American poker but there is no flush, straight flush, colour and straight. Moreover it is not possible to exchange cards because a pack is composed of 25 cards only, with five suits. Normally five persons play, each one receiving five cards. The highest hand is panj-sar, which means a player has five cards of one suit. Should more than one player who placed his stakes have a suit, the one whose suit has the higher value wins the game, i.e. the suit of \u0101s precedes that of Shahs etc. The next highest hand is \u010d\u0101h\u0101r-sar, which means holding four cards of one suit. It is followed by se-opas, i.e. three cards of one suit and two of another. This is followed by se-sar, i.e. three cards of a suit and two cards of different suits. Then do-pas follows for which the player needs two cards of two suits each. The lowest hand is do-sar, i.e. two cards of one suit. Bluffing is a main feature of this game.\u201d (Roschanzamir, M, 2011)."
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