Science seated frontally, head laurelled and surrounded by stars, holding a laurel wreath in her right hand, a compass on a globe in her left. At her feet, a child reading a book. In the background, a painter`s palette, a locomotive, a ship, a lighthouse, a hot-air balloon, a cogwheel and chemical instruments.
Obverse lettering
EXPOSITION DES SCIENCES APPLIQUÉES À
L`INDUSTRIE
DÉPOSÉ
1879
