The 1970 coat of arms consisted of an escutcheon "divided party per fess"; chief, landscaped, an eagle, "or", wings displayed, facing "sinister", over the image of the Palace of the Patriarchate, "argent", on an "azure" field; over a cogwheel, "or", with an open book with the lettered motto "CIVITAS" ("verso") and "NOSTRA" ("recto") (reading "Civitas Nostra" (Latin for "Our City"), "or", on a field, "gules"; with an inescutcheon "divided party per pale", "dexter" a hammer and sickle (symbol of the Romanian Communist Party)) on a field, gules, "sinister" the flag of Romania, the inescutcheon charged with the crest of Communist Romania.