Coat of arms of the Cape Colony

Coat of arms of Cape Colony
Adopted12 May 1875, formally granted 29 May 1876
CrestThe figure of Hope proper vested Azure, resting the dexter arm on a rock and supporting with the sinister hand an anchor Sable entwined with a cable also proper.
ShieldGules, a lion rampant between three annulets Or; on a chief Argent as many hurts each charged with a fleur de lis of the second Or.
SupportersDexter a gnu and sinister an oryx both proper.
MottoSpes Bona (Latin)
"Good Hope"

The coat of arms of the Cape Colony was the official heraldic symbol of the Cape Colony as a British colony from 1875 to 1910, and as a province of South Africa from 1910 to 1994.

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