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Mexico - Coat of arms

by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, August 31, 2001

Official description of the Mexico National Coat of Arms
Reverse side of the Mexico National Coat of Arms
Golden versions of the Mexico National Coat of Arms
History of the Mexico National Coat of Arms

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Official description of the Mexico National Coat of Arms

The coat of arms are described in the Article 2 of the "Ley sobre el Escudo, la Bandera y el Himno Nacionales" (Law on the National Coat of Arms, Flag, and Anthem) that reads:

The National Coat of Arms is featured by an Mexican eagle exposing its left profile, the upper part of the wings in a level higher than plume and slightly displayed in a battle attitude; with the sustenation plumage downwards touching to the tail whose feathers are arranged in natural fan. It puts its left grasp on a bloomed nopal that is born in a rock that emerges from a lake. It is grasping with the right grasp and the beack, in attitude of eat, a curved serpent, so that it harmonizes with the whole. Several "pencas" of the nopal grow to the sides. Two branches, one of encino to the front of the eagle and another one of laurel opposed, form a lower semicircle and they are united by a ribbon divided in three strips that, when the National Coat of Arms is represented in natural colors, correspond to those of the National flag.

Quoted by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, June 11, 2001

Reverse side of the Mexico National Coat of Arms

The coat of arms in its reverse form is also detailed in the artilce 2 of the "Ley sobre el Escudo, la Bandera y el Himno Nacionales" (Law on the National Coat of Arms, Flag, and Anthem) that reads:

(...) When the National Shield reproduces in the reverse side of the National Flag, the Mexican Eagle will appear standing in its right grasp, holding with the left one and the beack the curved serpent.
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[Reverse side of the arms]
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 06 April 2001

Source:
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