Remembering Frances Madge Kitchener’s contribution to the George VI threepence

Many women have and are working as coin designers, but they are underrepresented in the industry, and rarely a female name is listed in discussions of influential coin designers. Women have impacted the industry, and their stories deserve to be told. One such life is that of Frances Madge Kitchener (1889–1974), a British artist who designed the reverse of the George VI threepence coin. Born into a wealthy family, Kitchener first worked as a nurse for the French Red Cross during WWI. She then obtained an artistic education at the Slade School of Fine Art and caught the Royal Mint’s attention after winning a competition for a medal design at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition. In 1936, she was appointed by Edward VIII to redesign the reverse of the threepence,…

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World Coin News (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2025

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