Annuit Cœptis
''Annuit cœptis'' (, ) is one of two mottos on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States. The literal translation is " e/Shefavors (or "has favored") urundertakings", from Latin ''annuo'' ("I approve, I favor"), and ''coeptum'' ("commencement, undertaking"). Because of its context as a caption above the Eye of Providence, the standard translations are "Providence favors our undertakings" and "Providence has favored our undertakings". On the Great Seal In 1782, Samuel Adams appointed a design artist, William Barton of Philadelphia, to bring a proposal for the national seal. For the reverse, Barton suggested a 13-layered pyramid underneath the Eye of Providence. The mottos which Barton chose to accompany the design were ''Deo Favente'' ("with God's favor", or more literally, "with God favoring") and ''Perennis'' ("Everlasting"). The pyramid and ''Perennis'' motto had come from a $50 Continental currency bill designed by Francis Hopkinson. Barton explained tha ...
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Great Seal Of The United States (reverse)
The Great Seal is a principal national symbol of the United States. The phrase is used both for the physical seal itself, which is kept by the United States Secretary of State, and more generally for the design impressed upon it. The obverse of the Great Seal depicts the national coat of arms of the United States while the reverse features an unfinished pyramid topped by an Eye of Providence. The year of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, 1776, is noted in Roman numerals at the base of the pyramid. The seal contains three Latin phrases: ''E Pluribus Unum'' ("Out of many, one"), '' Annuit cœptis'' (" Providence has favored our undertakings"), and ''Novus ordo seclorum'' ("New order of the ages"). Largely designed by Charles Thomson, secretary of the Continental Congress, and William Barton, and first used in 1782, the seal is used to authenticate certain documents issued by the federal government of the United States. Since 1935, both sides of the Great Seal have appeared o ...
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Great Seal Of The United States (reverse Monochrome)
The Great Seal is a principal national symbol of the United States. The phrase is used both for the physical seal itself, which is kept by the United States Secretary of State, and more generally for the design impressed upon it. The obverse of the Great Seal depicts the national coat of arms of the United States while the reverse features an unfinished pyramid topped by an Eye of Providence. The year of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, 1776, is noted in Roman numerals at the base of the pyramid. The seal contains three Latin phrases: ''E Pluribus Unum'' ("Out of many, one"), ''Annuit cœptis'' ("Divine providence, Providence has favored our undertakings"), and ''Novus ordo seclorum'' ("New order of the ages"). Largely designed by Charles Thomson, secretary of the Continental Congress, and William Barton (heraldist), William Barton, and first used in 1782, the seal is used to authenticate certain documents issued by the federal government of the United States. Since 1935, b ...
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