IIIrd REPUBLIC 1870 - 1940 - Lot 234

IIIrd REPUBLIC 1870 - 1940 Essay 20 Francs "Type Turin" in cupro-aluminium 1929 Paris. ♦ Gad 852 (17.67 g) Original box. Superb. Pierre Louis Aristide Turin was born on August 3, 1891 in Sucy-en-Brie, where he died on July 25, 1968. He was a French medallist and sculptor. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Frédéric de Vernon, Henri-Auguste-Jules Patey and Jules Coutan. In 1911, he exhibited medals for the first time at the Salon des artistes français. He was mobilized in August 1914 when the First World War broke out. In 1920, he was awarded the first Grand Prix de Rome in medal engraving and fine stone for Une figure de la Paix qui s'avance une épée à la main, then a gold medal at the 1925 specialized exhibition. In 1928, competing for the Monnaie de Paris, he was chosen to create a new type of coin featuring Marianne wearing the Phrygian bonnet girded with an olive wreath on the obverse and ears of wheat on the reverse: the "Turin type". This type of engraving was used for ten-franc coins until 1949 and twenty-franc coins until 1939.