Lot 43: [ ITALIAN MEDALS ]

MATTEO DE' PASTI (active 1441-1468) Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417-1468), Lord of Rimini and Fano from 1432, bronze medal, dated 1446, SIGISMONDVS PANDVLFVS DE MALATESTIS S RO ECLESIE C GENERALIS, bust left wearing cuirass and surcoat, rev., CASTELLVM SISMONDVM ARIMINENSE M CCCC XLVI, the castle of Rimini, 83.2mm (Hill 174; Pollard 27 = Kress 60), pierced, a very fine contemporary cast with brown patina, an excavation piece with traces of creta