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Italy, Isotta degli Atti da Rimini, c.1450, a cast bronze medal by M. de’ Pasti, bust right, her hair over high frame, D · ISOTTAE · ARIMINENSI, reverse closed book, ELEGIAE around, 41mm (Hill, Corpus, 188; Kress 64; Arm. I, 22/23; BDM IV, 404, no.6). Good patination, small piercing at top, otherwise a sharp very fine (£150-250)

Isotta degli Atti da Rimini (1432-74), mistress, later wife, of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta