File:Coat of arms of New York State (1896-2020).svg

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  • Charge: Azure, in a landscape, the sun in fess, rising in splendor or, behind a range of three mountains, the middle one the highest; in base a ship and sloop under sail, passing and about to meet on a river, bordered below by a grassy shore fringed with shrubs, all proper.
  • Crest: On a wreath azure and or, an American eagle proper, rising to the Dexter from a two-thirds of a globe terrestrial, showing the north Atlantic ocean with outlines of its shores.
  • Supporters: On a quasi compartment formed by the extension of the scroll.
    • Dexter: The figure of Liberty proper, her hair disheveled and decorated with pearls, vested azure, sandaled gules, about the waist a cincture or, fringed gules, a mantle of the last depending from the shoulders behind to the feet, in the dexter hand a staff ensigned with a Phrygian cap or, the sinister arm embowed, the hand supporting the shield at the dexter chief point, a royal crown by her sinister foot dejected.
    • Sinister: The figure of Justice proper, her hair disheveled and decorated with pearls, vested or, about the waist a cincture azure, fringed gules, sandaled and mantled as Liberty, bound about the eyes with a fillet proper, in the dexter hand a straight sword hilted or, erect, resting on the sinister chief point of the shield, the sinister arm embowed, holding before her scales proper.
  • Motto: On a scroll below the shield argent, in sable, two lines. On line one, Excelsior.
Date 1778. Updated in April 2020.[1][2][3] Enacted in September 2020.[4]
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English: Coat of arms of New York State
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Unknown author, vectorised by user:Fenn-O-maniC
Source https://www.dos.ny.gov/kids_room/kids_coa.html and https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/STL/70
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  1. https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/politics/albany/2020/01/14/andrew-cuomo-change-new-york-state-flag-seal/4435871002/
  2. https://www.syracuse.com/politics/2020/01/gov-cuomo-seeks-to-change-138-year-old-ny-state-flag.html
  3. https://www.news10.com/news/nys-budget-e-pluribus-unum-added-to-nys-coat-of-arms/
  4. https://highlandscurrent.org/2020/10/03/how-they-voted-8/

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