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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, rev. closed book, ELEGIAE around, 41mm (Hill, Corpus, 188; Kress 64; Arm. I, 22/23; BDM IV, 404, no.6; cf. DNW 48, 647). An early cast with some flan flaws behind bust, about very fine, medium-brown patina (£150-200)

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