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Originally Genova used a ducal crown on the arms, but after the annexation it had to be reduced to the crown of a county, as the capital of the Kingdom, Torino, also used only a county crown. Above the crown the head of the Roman God Ianus is shown, after which the city was named. | Originally Genova used a ducal crown on the arms, but after the annexation it had to be reduced to the crown of a county, as the capital of the Kingdom, Torino, also used only a county crown. Above the crown the head of the Roman God Ianus is shown, after which the city was named. | ||
Since the fifteenth century, a second shield has been at times used side by side with the cross, but it never supplanted it and is quite forgotten. It was azure, on a bend argent the word LIBERTAS sable. | |||
{|align="center" | {|align="center" | ||
|align="center"|[[File:genova2.jpg|center| | |align="center"|[[File:genova2.jpg|center|400 px|Stemma di {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms around 1550 | ||
|align="center"|[[File:genova3.jpg|center|400 px|Stemma di {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The double arms sometimes used in the 16th century | |||
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|align="center"|[[File:genova.fassi.jpg|center|200 px|Stemma di {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms in the Fassi series | |align="center"|[[File:genova.fassi.jpg|center|200 px|Stemma di {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms in the Fassi series | ||