1951. France. MARIANNE – ASSEMBLÉE NATIONALE. By Lucien Bazor. Silver (1ARGENT on its edge) 50mm. $150.

Lucien Georges Bazor was born in 1889. He studied under Auguste Patey at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux Arts. He won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome for medal engraving in 1923. Bazor succeeded Patey in the post of Engraver General at the Paris Mint, a post he held until 1958. He died in 1974.