1939, France. 300TH ANNIVERSARY OF REUNIFICATION OF ALSACE WITH FRANCE. By Pierre Turin. Bronze 68mm. Obv: Gallia taking the hands of a female personification of Alsace. Rev: A view of a fountain in a town square. Cat. Gen. vol. 3 377/G. $120. ———–
Pierre Turin was born in 1891. He was a student at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He studied under Patey and Vernon. In 1920 he won the Grand Prix de Rome for medal engraving. Turin died in 1968.