Watch List notes:

*Italy, Rimini, Isotta degli Atti, mistress and then wife of Sigismondo Malatesta, bronze medal by Matteo de' Pasti, isote ariminensi forma et virtvte italie decori ("to Isotta of Rimini, the ornament of Italy for beauty and virtue"), veiled bust of Isotta right, rev., opvs mattei de pasti v, the Malatesta elephant standing to right in a flowery meadow, 84.5mm (Hill 167; Armand I, 21, 20; Pollard 31 = Kress 59 = Scher, Currency of Fame, 12), pierced and the date of 1446 erased from the reverse, a very fine contemporary cast Ex Astarte IX, 15 May 2002, lot 733; John R. Gaines collection, Morton & Eden, 8 December 2005, lot 3 and Stack collection, Morton & Eden, 9 December 2009, lot 44. (£5000 - 7000)