Secondina Lorenza Eugenia Cesano (16 February 1879 - 13 August 1973) was an Italian

numismatist A numismatist is a specialist, researcher, and/or well-informed collector of numismatics, numismatics/coins ("of coins"; from Late Latin , genitive of ). Numismatists can include collectors, specialist dealers, and scholar-researchers who use coi ...

and professor of numismatics at the

Sapienza University of Rome The Sapienza University of Rome (), formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", abbreviated simply as Sapienza ('Wisdom'), is a Public university, public research university located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1303 and is ...

Biography

Cesano originally studied at the Sapienza University of Rome. In 1902 she won a competition and gained a role at the

National Roman Museum The National Roman Museum (Italian: ''Museo Nazionale Romano'') is a museum, with several branches in separate buildings throughout the city of Rome, Italy. It shows exhibits from the pre- and early history of Rome, with a focus on archaeological ...

. In 1907 she gained

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in numismatics at Sapienza. She also worked on numismatics in the

National Archaeological Museum, Naples The National Archaeological Museum of Naples (, ) is an important Italian archaeological museum. Its collection includes works from Greek, Roman and Renaissance times, and especially Roman artifacts from the nearby Pompeii, Stabiae and Hercu ...

and the National Museum of Ravenna. In 1912, at the foundation of the Istituto italiano di numismatica, Cesano was appointed to the board of directors, later becoming its extraordinary commissar from 1943 to 1944. Cesano was an Honorary Fellow of the

Royal Numismatic Society The Royal Numismatic Society (RNS) is a learned society and charity based in London, United Kingdom which promotes research into all branches of numismatics. Its patron was Queen Elizabeth II. Membership Foremost collectors and researchers, bo ...

Select publications

*1904 (with Adolf Schulten and Dante Vaglieri) ''L'Africa romana''. Rome: Albrighi. *1915. ''Il medagliere dell'ex-Museo Kircheriano. Parte I, Monete fuse''. Roma : Presso la sede dell'Istituto. *1921. "La zecca di Roma", ''Rassegna d'arte antica e moderna'' 21, 361–368. *1957. ''Catalogo della collezione numismatica di Carlo Piancastelli''. Forlí : Soc. Tipo litografia forlivese.

References

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