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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 189231, member: 54&quot;]&quot;The same heraldic device was on Columbus&#039; banner when he landed in....&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry that&#039;s incorrect.&nbsp; I studied Spain&#039;s coa researching an article I did on a certain Spanish cannon in the Museum of the USNavy in Washington.&nbsp; The cannon had that same COA cast into it with a sign saying the particular cannon had been brought to the New World by Cortez in the late 15th C.&nbsp; My research showed that the closed crown was not &quot;invented&quot; for the Spanish crown until the 17th C., and the coa crowns prior to that were open on top, meaning the spikes pointed upward to open air, there was no line over the spikes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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