The seal of the state of Colorado is an adaptation of the territorial seal which was adopted by the First Territorial Assembly on November 6, 1861. In the early mining days of the state, the unregenerate said it meant "nothing without a new mine". The family are descended from Sir Humphrey Weld, Lord Mayor of London in 1601 and were notable as a recusant family prior to Catholic Emancipation in the 19th century. The Luttrell Psalter, a famous medieval manuscript dated to the 14th century, contains inside its binding an armorial bookplate of Thomas Weld (1750–1810), one of the book's owners, and the motto on the plate's ribbon reads "nil sine numine".
The motto is also used by the Colorado School of Mines, an engineering university in Golden, Colorado, High Point University, a small liberal arts university in High Point, North Carolina, and by Virginia Intermont College, a liberal arts college in Bristol, Virginia.
Coat of arms
thumb|The [[Coat of Arms of the State of Colorado as illustrated in 1876.]]
The Coat of Arms of the State of Colorado was implicitly defined by the legislation creating the Seal of the Territory of Colorado on November 11, 1861, and the Great Seal of the State of Colorado on March 15, 1877. It is seldom used, but maintained for historical interest.
See also
- Flag of Colorado
- Bibliography of Colorado
- Geography of Colorado
- History of Colorado
- Index of Colorado-related articles
- List of Colorado-related lists
- Outline of Colorado