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Venezuela - Coat of Arms

by Raul Orta, 18 August 2003

Overview
Coat of Arms According to Album 2000 Corr. 3

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Venezuela

Overview

The wheatsheaf in the first quarter (dexter chief) has 20 ears of wheat standing for the 20 states who made up Venezuela when the Coat of Arms was designed. The scroll joining the olive and palm branches has the following texts:

19 de Abril de 1.810 20 de Febrero de 1.959
Independencia Federacion
Republica de Venezuela

Source: <homes.acmecity.com>
Dov Gutterman (translated by Santiago Dotor), 15 June 1999

The coat of arms is strictly regulated. It can be used only by the State authorities on their stationery. As I know it (this is an empirical account, I have not checked the law yet), the President, the Presidents ofthe Parliamentary Chambers and Chief Justice, use a multicolor coat of arms (engraved) on theirs. Ministers, Comptroller's Officer, State Defensor,General Attorney, Commanders of the Armed Forces (among others) use a golden (engraved) coat of arms on their stationery; and MP's, Ministerial directors, Heads of Departments, Presidentially Appointed Heads of Comissions and medium army officers use a white (engraved) coat of arms.Other state officers use a printed white coat of arms with a black contourtraced around its components, in flat paper. Civil Society cannot use the Coat of Arms whasoever (although it is printed on mugs, t-shirts, posters, caps,stickers and so on...). Oddly enough, I have seen a Venezuelan Coat of Arms with a Princely Crown replacing the two Cornucopias with flowers. Never in Venezuela's history we have been a monarchy or a principate. The Coat of Arms with the crown I saw was on, get this, a souvenir ashtray !!!
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