Upright the Queen of Coins is read as nurturing, practicality and resourcefulness, security provided through steady, grounded care; reversed, as self-absorption, insecurity, or a neglect of others that can follow when that same care turns inward.
As a person card, she is conventionally read as practical, generous and at ease managing the material world, and readers commonly distinguish her from the King of Coins on the axis the Golden Dawn's structure formalizes, her Water of Earth a warmth that holds and nurtures, his Fire of Earth a mastery directed outward into enterprise and leadership; where he builds and governs, she is more often read as sustaining what has already been built.
Waite's own printed meaning, opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty, is somewhat grander and less domestic than the homemaking, everyday-care reading most contemporary practice now emphasizes, the shift toward reading her as specifically a nurturing homemaker rather than a figure of broader material magnificence following Smith's garden-and-rabbit picture more than Waite's own text.
The rabbit at her feet, unique among the deck's sixteen court cards, is frequently paired by commentators with the cherubs carved into her throne as evidence of how much further Smith individualized this queen's fertility symbolism than the Golden Dawn's shared title, Water of Earth, would on its own require.