Wikipedia's 'Batons (suit)' article carries no citation for the coins-to-polo-sticks-to-batons mechanism sentence; its only footnote is attached to a different, later sentence
claim-mamluk-card-suit-renamed-twice-coins-polo-sticks-batons rests on Wikipedia's "Batons (suit)" article for its account of a two-hop resemblance-driven renaming: Chinese money-suited cards' coin suit misread as polo-sticks entering the Islamic world, then the polo-stick suit misread again and re-illustrated as cudgels and batons entering Europe. A direct read of the article's raw wikitext (not the rendered page) shows the mechanism paragraph carries no footnote at all; the article's only footnote sits in a later, separate paragraph of the same section, attached to a different sentence — that occultists call the suit "wands" — citing Michael Dummett's A Wicked Pack of Cards (1996), p. 47. The mechanism sentence itself, in the current revision, carries no citation at all.
This means the vault's existing Tier-4 citation was never, on Wikipedia's own account, backed by Dummett's 1996 book for the sentence it has been treated as supporting — the only reference on the page sits in a later paragraph, attached to an unrelated claim about later occultist naming.
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“The suit of batons is believed to have derived from Chinese money-suited cards' String of cash coins suit being misinterpreted as polo-sticks by the Muslims when the cards came into contact with the Islamic world. ... In cartomancy and occultist circles, the suit of batons is usually called the suit of wands.Dummett, Michael. A Wicked Pack of Cards: Origins of the Occult Tarot. Bloomsbury (1996), p. 47.”
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