Queen of Pentacles in 6 decks
The same card as 6 decks draw it, five and a half centuries apart. What stays the same is the card’s core; what changes is where a reading can find something new. The meanings are written for the Rider–Waite–Smith picture; the descriptions here are of each deck’s own. Not in Oswald Wirth, which has no Queen of Pentacles card.
Side by side
Choose any two decks and read the pictures against each other.
Pamela Colman Smith, 1909
A queen sits on a throne carved with goats, fruit and cherubs, in a garden under an arch of roses, holding a pentacle in her lap and gazing down at it with calm attention. A rabbit sits near her feet and the land around her is green and cultivated. She is outdoors and entirely at home.
Lequart, Paris, 19th century
A queen in profile faces left, holding a coin up in one hand and a long sceptre in the other. Her red cap is set with a small crown, and she wears a grey gown under red and pink cloaks with green sleeves. A green and red shape rises behind her at right. Titled REYNE DE DENIERS.
Rider–Waite–Smith
Pamela Colman Smith, 1909
A queen sits on a throne carved with goats, fruit and cherubs, in a garden under an arch of roses, holding a pentacle in her lap and gazing down at it with calm attention. A rabbit sits near her feet and the land around her is green and cultivated. She is outdoors and entirely at home.
Tarot de Marseille
Lequart, Paris, 19th century
A queen in profile faces left, holding a coin up in one hand and a long sceptre in the other. Her red cap is set with a small crown, and she wears a grey gown under red and pink cloaks with green sleeves. A green and red shape rises behind her at right. Titled REYNE DE DENIERS.
Tarot de Viéville
Jacques Viéville, c. 1650
A crowned woman sits in profile facing right in a red cloak over a yellow and green gown. She holds a coin up in her right hand and a sceptre slanting across her body in her left.
Visconti-Sforza
Bonifacio Bembo, c. 1450
A crowned fair-haired woman sits in profile facing right, resting her right hand on a large gold coin propped on her lap. She wears a dark gown patterned with blue interlace and flowers, red sleeves and a mantle lined with gold. The gold behind her is tooled with diamonds and rosettes.
In the Visconti-Sforza deck the number cards show only their suit symbols, and the trumps are unnamed and unnumbered.
Sola Busca
c. 1491
A crowned woman in a red gown sits on a purple seat carved with crossed laurel, holding a coin and touching it with a slender stylus. A vine climbs behind her, and a jug and a small pot stand on a purple pillar. The name ELENA is at the top and 13 at the centre.
Soimoi
Mike Koz, 2025
A woman with her hair pinned up sits in a brown kimono in a dusky garden, eyes lowered, holding a large gold coin with a three-comma swirl in her lap. A young deer lies at her feet. A lit stone lantern stands at left, red chrysanthemums bloom at right, and yellow leaves drift down against a red glow behind her.