Lot 48: [ ITALIAN MEDALS ]

MATTEO DE' PASTI (active 1441-1468) Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417-1468), Lord of Rimini and Fano from 1432, bronze medal, dated 1450, laureate bust left, rev., the façade of the church of San Francesco at Rimini according to Alberti's design, 40mm (Hill 183; Armand I, 21, 17; Pollard 37 = Kress 66), sometime cleaned, a fine early cast