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| | Missouri Symbols, Great Seal - SHG Resources |
 | | The whole state seal is enclosed by a scroll bearing the words, "The Great Seal of the State of Missouri." |
 | | For the crest, over a helmet full-faced, grated with six bars; or, a cloud proper, from which ascends a star argent, and above it a constellation of twenty-three smaller stars, argent, on an azure field, surrounded by a cloud proper. |
 | | Supporters on each side, a white or grizzly bear of Missouri, rampant, guardant proper, standing on a scroll, inscribed with the motto, "Salus populi suprema lex esto", and under the scroll the numerical letters MDCCCXX. |
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