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The Coat of Arms of Saint Johns County, Florida.

St. Johns* (not St. John) County is where St. Augustine is situated, which is the reason for the Spanish elements of the arms.

(*And St. Johns rather than the grammatically correct St. John's because the U.S. Board on Geographic Names suffers from chronic apostrophobia.)

...and the penchant for plural's would be apostrophilia?

Sorry... Anyway, interesting arms!

That castle in sinister base looks odd, as if it's wobbling.

I see that the arms were granted/certified by the Spanish Cronista de Armas in 1991. The paschal lamb refers to St John; the castle in chief to the former Spanish military garrison in the county; the bordure to Castile and Leon. The crown is a Spanish provincial crown.

JMcMillan wrote:St. Johns* (not St. John) County is where St. Augustine is situated, which is the reason for the Spanish elements of the arms.

(*And St. Johns rather than the grammatically correct St. John's because the U.S. Board on Geographic Names suffers from chronic apostrophobia.)

Did made Correction of the Spelling.