The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

Pentacles
Ace

A hand–issuing, as usual, from a cloud–holds up a pentacle.

Divinatory Meanings: Perfect
contentment, felicity, ecstasy; also speedy intelligence; gold.

Reversed: The evil side of wealth,
bad intelligence; also great riches. In any case it shews prosperity, comfortable material
conditions, but whether these are of advantage to the possessor will depend on whether the card is reversed or not.