City of Toulouse Medal – signed by Georges Guiraud (born in Toulouse in 1901)
In bronze
Weight: 151.4 g
Diameter: 68 mm
Obverse:
Circular inscription: VILLE DE TOULOUSE
Draped woman , seated on a cloud , towered , holding a scepter bearing the Occitan cross .
View from the Garonne on the Pont-Neuf and the emblematic buildings of the pink city: the Couvent des Jacobins behind which we can see the spire of the Saint-Sernin basilica , the pediment of the Notre-Dame La Daurade basilica , the towers of private mansions .
Signature:
GEORGES
GUIRAUD
Reverse:
Crowned coat of arms of the city of Toulouse : Gules, a cross keyed, emptied and pommetée of twelve gold pieces, mounted on a shaft of the same placed in pale, adextral of a castle kept with three towers and sinister of a basilica of Saint-Sernin with three bell towers, all of argent masoned sable, with a paschal lamb argent, the head contoured and haloed or, debruising over the whole; with a chief sewn azure sown with fleurs-de-lis or.
Adjoined by two cornucopias from which spring leaves , flowers , grapes , a hammer , a book and a lyre .
Edge:
Cornucopia hallmark (Paris Mint) + BRONZE
