Coat o airms o Monaco
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The Ryal Airms o His Serene Hieness Prince Albert II are his arms o dominion in richt o Monaco.
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[edit] Features
[edit] Interior
The central shield is "blazoned" (described in the technical leid o heraldry), fusily (or lozengy) argent an gules.
[edit] Exterior
The monks supportin the shield in the coat o airms allude tae the conquest o Monaco in 1297, when François Grimaldi entered the ceety with sodgers dressed as monks, wi swords hidden unner their cassocks.
The collar surroondin the shield represents the Order o St. Charles.
[edit] Motto
The Grimaldi motto, Deo Juvante, is Laitin for "Wi God's help".
