id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7916 Cleopatra - Wikipedia .html text/html 28615 3137 76 Surviving coinage of Cleopatra's reign include specimens from every regnal year, from 51 to 30 BC.[410] Cleopatra, the only Ptolemaic queen to issue coins on her own behalf, almost certainly inspired her partner Caesar to become the first living Roman to present his portrait on his own coins.[408][note 64] Cleopatra was also the first foreign queen to have her image appear on Roman currency.[411] Coins dated to the period of her marriage to Antony, which also bear his image, portray the queen as having a very similar aquiline nose and prominent chin as that of her husband.[3][412] These similar facial features followed an artistic convention that represented the mutually-observed harmony of a royal couple.[3][2] Her strong, almost masculine facial features in these particular coins are strikingly different from the smoother, softer, and perhaps idealized sculpted images of her in either the Egyptian or Hellenistic styles.[2][413][414] Her masculine facial features on minted currency are similar to that of her father, Ptolemy XII Auletes,[415][114] and perhaps also to those of her Ptolemaic ancestor Arsinoe II (316–260 BC)[2][416] and even depictions of earlier queens such as Hatshepsut and Nefertiti.[414] It is likely, due to political expediency, that Antony's visage was made to conform not only to hers but also to those of her Macedonian Greek ancestors who founded the Ptolemaic dynasty, to familiarize himself to her subjects as a legitimate member of the royal house.[2] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7916.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7916.txt