Medal - Syria ND (1934) front Medal - Syria ND (1934) back
Medal - Syria ND (1934) photo
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Medal - Syria ND

1934 year
Bronze - 85.5 mm
Description
Location
France
Period
Third Republic (1870-1940)
Type
Medals › Art medals
Year
1934
Composition
Bronze
Diameter
85.5 mm
Shape
Round
Technique
Milled
Updated
2024-11-12
References
Numista
N#167759
Rarity index
100%

Reverse

Crusader knight on rearing horse before a walled castle

Lettering: A.GUZMAN

Engraver: Aleth Guzman-Nageotte

Edge

Stampted with number

Lettering: 26

Comment

Medal by Aleth Guzman-Nageotte (1904-1978), produced for the Société des Amis de la Médaille Française, c.1934.
Aleth Guzman-Nageotte won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1929 for her medal work in 1908. She inituially studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dijon and then Paris, working with Ovid Yencesse and later Patey and Dammann.