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Communication of the departmental governor Sir Jorge Mendez
Castaneda on 21 April 1997: "Based on the mythical coat of
arms of the city of Coban supposedly granted by Charles I of
Spain. Until 1936 the world image showing the American continent
carried the emblem of the Dominican order that had christianized
the region called then Texulutlán. The arms were recently
revised by the lawyer Agustín Estrada Monroy, who included some
quetzal bird feathers, a royal crown and a rope with knots on its
ends, but his proposal was found too different from the original
design from Charles I and rejected."
Jaume Ollé and Fred Drew from Flag Report