Lot 46: [ ITALIAN MEDALS ]

MATTEO DE' PASTI (active 1441-1468) Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417-1468), Lord of Rimini and Fano from 1432, bronze medal, dated 1446, bust left, rev., interlaced letters SI (for Sigismondo) on shield surmounted by the Malatesta crest, 42.5mm (Hill 166; Armand I, 21, 16), pierced, three scuff marks, a fine contemporary cast