The Great Seal of the United States is the seal of the United States of America. The phrase is used both for the impression device itself, which is kept by the United States secretary of state, and mo
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The arms as held by Columbia in the war scene of the United States Capitol's 1865 Apotheosis of Washington by Constantino Brumidi
A hatched rendering of the coat of arms being used at the Department of State headquarters at Harry S Truman Building.
The press and cabinet, made in 1903
Annuit cœptis
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Annuit cœptis is one of two mottos on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States. The literal translation is " favors undertakings", from Latin annuo, and coeptum. Because of its context
Great Seal of the United States
…Independence, 1776, is noted in Roman numerals at the base of the pyramid. The seal contains three Latin phrases: E Pluribus Unum ("Out of many, one"), Annuit cœptis ("He has favored our undertakings"), and Novus ordo seclorum ("A new order of the ages"). Largely designed by Charles Thomson, then secretary of the…
US Great Seal Charles Thomson Preliminary Design