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Emperor Nicholas I granted the arms on April 6, 1845: in the upper part the obelisk (the arms of Kaunas province), and in the lower part on silver background the brown wooden plough with steel share. | Emperor Nicholas I granted the arms on April 6, 1845: in the upper part the obelisk (the arms of Kaunas province), and in the lower part on silver background the brown wooden plough with steel share. | ||
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|align="center"|[[File:Panevezys 1844 project.jpg|center|300 px]] <br/>The project of 1844 | |||
|align="center"|[[File:Panevezys 1845.jpg|center|300 px]] <br/>The arms from 1845 | |||
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In 1861 Bernhard Koehne provided the new project. He pointed up the wooden plough is not a heraldic figure, and proposed the silver arms with red bent and two black ploughshares. The arms of Kaunas province was moved to free corner. The arms had three-tower mural crown and the decoration of two golden wheat spikes, bent with the red Alexander strip. The crown and Alexander strip should symbolize the district, and spikes should symbolize the agriculture. | In 1861 Bernhard Koehne provided the new project. He pointed up the wooden plough is not a heraldic figure, and proposed the silver arms with red bent and two black ploughshares. The arms of Kaunas province was moved to free corner. The arms had three-tower mural crown and the decoration of two golden wheat spikes, bent with the red Alexander strip. The crown and Alexander strip should symbolize the district, and spikes should symbolize the agriculture. | ||