In Spain, the suit of cups is known as copas and the court cards are known as the rey (king), caballo (knight or cavalier) and sota (knave or valet).

[1] In 1588, at the request of publisher Leonhardt Heussler in Nuremberg, Germany, the Swiss-German artist Jost Amman created a deck of cards where two of the four suits are cups.

Like other early German decks, the 10 rank is represented by a Banner, and the court cards are the Unter, Ober, and King.

Many of the cards feature fanciful illustrations demonstrating the artist's skill (a trend started by the Italian tarot).

The pack is of the Castilian pattern: The gallery below shows a suit of cups from an Italian-suited deck of 52 cards.