Lot 45: [ ITALIAN MEDALS ]

MATTEO DE' PASTI (active 1441-1468) Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417-1468), Lord of Rimini and Fano from 1432, bronze medal, dated 1446, SIGISMVNDVS PANDVLFVS MALATESTA PAN F, armoured bust left, rev., CASTELLVM SISMVNDVM ARIMINENSE M CCCC XLVI, the castle of Rimini, 81mm (Hill 186; Armand I, 20, 12; Pollard 29 = Kress 62), some wear to the portrait, a few edge marks, a very fine contemporary cast