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Czech Republic's Coats of Arms

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The small Arms

image from this site, reported by Jarig Bakker, 2 Sep 2000.

The smaller state arms are a shield displaying only the arms of Bohemia (the silver lion on red which takes up the first and forth fields in the greater state arms). (I would also guess, that these smaller and greater state arms are the ones that were adopted in 1990, as stated further up on the page (under the headline "1990-1992 flag"). The greater state arms can be seen below and on the President's flag.
Elias Granqvist, 2 Sep 2000

Since 1918 these lions were used on CoAs:

1. 1920-1939 (Republic of Czechoslovakia's COA accepted two years after dissolution of Austria-Hungary, used also by exile government in 1940-1945)

2. 1939-1945 (Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia)

3. 1945-1960 *the same* as 1 (before accepting the constitution of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1960, both official name and COAs of the pre-WWII Republic of Czechoslovakia remained unchanged - no "People's Democratic Republic of Czechoslovakia" has ever existed!)

4. 1960-1990 (socialist COA with "hussite shield", which however is not "hussite" in any way)

5. 1990-1992 (Czechoslovak