Spanish playing cards the "sota", which is similar to the jack/knave and generally depicts a page or squire, the "caballo" (knight, literally "horse"), and the "rey" (king) respectively. There are instances of historical decks having both "caballo" and "reina" (queen), the "caballo" being of lower value than "queen". These decks have no numbers in the figure values, not even letters as in the French deck. Reversible face cards exist but are not popular. It is also possible to find 52-card French decks with Spanish pictures. These have English corner indices which means the Knight will have the Queen's "Q" index. Historically, Spain was
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