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Bitter Mushroom posted:Can someone tell me, I thought it was the case that there are no 'family' coat of arms, all coats of arms were awarded to specific individuals, and are not passed down to their sons or other descendants. Hence why all the 'Discover your noble coat of arms $9.99' websites are full of poo poo. According to Wikipedia, only in Scotland and England, and even then it could be passed down from father to son. quote:In the heraldic traditions of England and Scotland an individual, rather than a family, had a coat of arms. In those traditions coats of arms are legal property transmitted from father to son; wives and daughters could also bear arms modified to indicate their relation to the current holder of the arms. Undifferenced arms are used only by one person at any given time. Other descendants of the original bearer could bear the ancestral arms only with some difference: usually a color change or the addition of a distinguishing charge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms#Traditions_and_usage For content, the Shah of Iran's coat of arms was pretty cool: 
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