Minas Gerais

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MINAS GERAIS STATE

Official blazon

Origin/meaning

The miner's hammers symbolise the mining and the iron industries in the State, the coffee branches are related to the coffee plantations at the south of the state. Libertas quae sera tamen means "freedom, even late"