http://www.oscar-roty.fr/ : Louis Oscar Roty (1846-1911) was the designer to whom we owe one of the most famous and well known French silver coin of the twentieth century, the "Sower", which also is shown on stamps.
This different model of the helmeted Republic prepared for the Department of the Interior was greatly appreciated and taken for multiple awards. As for the medal of Honor of the penal administration, the Medal of primary education, the inauguration of the prefecture of the Rhone in 1891, the exhibition in Hanoi in 1902, the military medal campaign in Madagascar in 1895 the medal to commemorate the centenary of the Bank of France in 1900.