The Eastern Crown is a gold heraldic

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surmounted with a variable number of sharp spikes. It is so called because of its origin in the

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. The Eastern Crown is one of the oldest crowns, and so for this reason it has also been known as the Antique Crown. The

celestial crown The celestial crown is a modified version of the Eastern crown. The celestial crown is a representative badge or headdress consisting of a gold fence usually adorned with pointed points or rays topped with stars of the same metal. It usually has ...

is a modified Eastern Crown with longer spikes and topped by stars with no specific fixed number of points.

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File:Ströhl-Rangkronen-Fig. 53.png, Example of an Eastern crown (

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) File:LSB-smariaolivais.png, Coat of arms of Santa Maria dos Olivais, Lisbon (

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) featuring an Eastern crown File:CoA of Kingdom of Illyria.svg, Coat of arms of the former Kingdom of Illyria featuring an Eastern crown File:CoA of Dalmatia (Habsburg Monarchy).png, Old coat of arms of

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( Habsburg Monarchy) featuring Eastern crowns File:Grandes armes OSLJ.svg, Coat of arms of the

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featuring an Eastern crown File:Coat of Arms of the Duke of Wellington.svg, Coat of arms of the

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featuring

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gorged (collared) of Eastern crowns File:DENAR1.jpg, An eastern crown depicted on a coin of

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References

''Eastern Crown definition''
''Libro de Armoría''.

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''Chapter XXIII: Crest, Coronets and Chapeaux''. Eastern Crowns in heraldry {{heraldry-stub Crowns of the coat of Arms of Austria-Hungary

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