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Seal of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission .

In 17 C.F.R §2.1 , the seal is described as:

An American bald eagle in black and white holding the scales of balanced interests over a black and white wheel of commerce and a farmer's plow, also in black and white. These symbols are enclosed with an inner red octagon and a blue outer octagon representing traditional futures contract trading pits. Around the outside of the octagons are the words COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION separated by two stars from the year “1975,” the first year of the Commission's existence.

Source Extracted from the PDF version of the CFTC's 2006 Performance Report , and colorized based on the description and version found here .
Author U.S. Government
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( Reusing this file )

Public domain from a copyright standpoint, but other trademark-like restrictions apply. According to 17 C.F.R. §2.2 :

(a) Fraudulently or wrongfully affixing or impressing the Seal to or upon any certificate, instrument, document or paper or with knowledge of its fraudulent character, or with wrongful or fraudulent intent, using, buying, procuring, selling or transferring to another any such paper is punishable under section 1017 of title 18, U.S. Code.

(b) Falsely making, forging, counterfeiting, mutilating, or altering the Seal, or knowingly using a fraudulent or altered Seal or possessing any such Seal knowingly is punishable under section 506 of title 18, U.S. Code.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code . Note : This only applies to original works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state , territory , commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. This template also does not apply to postage stamp designs published by the United States Postal Service since 1978 . (See § 313.6(C)(1) of Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices). It also does not apply to certain US coins; see The US Mint Terms of Use .

Insignia This image shows a flag , a coat of arms , a seal or some other official insignia . The use of such symbols is restricted in many countries. These restrictions are independent of the copyright status.

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