The Eastern Crown is a gold heraldic

crown A crown is a traditional form of head adornment, or hat, worn by monarchs as a symbol of their power and dignity. A crown is often, by extension, a symbol of the monarch's government or items endorsed by it. The word itself is used, partic ...

surmounted with a variable number of sharp spikes. It is so called because of its origin in the

Eastern Mediterranean Eastern Mediterranean is a loose definition of the eastern approximate half, or third, of the Mediterranean Sea, often defined as the countries around the Levantine Sea. It typically embraces all of that sea's coastal zones, referring to communi ...

. The Eastern Crown is one of the oldest crowns, and so for this reason it has also been known as the Antique Crown. The

celestial crown The celestial crown is a modified version of the Eastern crown. The celestial crown is a representative badge or headdress consisting of a gold fence usually adorned with pointed points or rays topped with stars of the same metal. It usually has ...

is a modified Eastern Crown with longer spikes and topped by stars with no specific fixed number of points.

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File:Ströhl-Rangkronen-Fig. 53.png, Example of an Eastern crown (

Hugo Gerard Ströhl Hugo Gerard Ströhl (24 September 1851 – 7 December 1919) was an Austrian heraldist. Life Ströhl was born in Wels in Upper Austria. A talented painter, he studied at the School for Applied Arts ("Kunstgewerbeschule des Österreichische ...

) File:LSB-smariaolivais.png, Coat of arms of

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Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...

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) featuring an Eastern crown File:CoA of Kingdom of Illyria.svg, Coat of arms of the former

Kingdom of Illy