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Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta

(Italian, about 1420–after 1420)
about 1451–56
Place of ManufactureItaly
Medium/TechniqueMetal; cast bronze
DimensionsOverall: 81 mm, 0.3 kg (3 3/16 in., 260 gm)
Credit LineLucy Stone Brewer Fund
Accession number23.206
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ClassificationsNumismatics
Collections
InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed at edge "SIGISMVNDVS·PANDVLFVS·DE·MALATESTIS·S·RO·ECLESIE·C·GENERALIS". Reverse: Inscribed below "*M·CCCC".
ProvenanceBy 1875, C.C. Perkins, Boston; 1909, transferred from C.C. Perkins to Charles B. Perkins, Boston; 1923, sold by Charles B. Perkins to the MFA for $1000 [see note 1]. (Accession Date: April 5, 1923)

NOTES:
[1] MFA accession numbers 23.202-209 were acquired together for $1000.
Group shot: 23.206-7
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