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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MarcusAntonius, post: 7608963, member: 119121&quot;]Thank you very much, was thinking the same. As a Marcus Antonius collector do I encounter less and less examples of rare coins in a very nice condition, and if you are lucky to find one, to acquire it will be another story. They are increasing in value rapid, it looks like Blitzkrieg in the large auction house when one appears. Need to bring in the Tiger II to put the competition to sleep....</p><p><br /></p><p>This counts even more for a great coin with Cleopatra VII, especially with Marcus, extremely difficult to acquire in a great condition. For a really nice exemplar will you need a 10.000 USD plus budget (some times 50,000 plus) in order to acquire it! Some good young luxurious Pick up&#039;s (full options) are needing to be sacrified or perhaps the collection of grandfathers Knucklehead&#039;s? What about selling your unique well maintained Aston Martin V12, perhaps some rare classic race Ducati&#039;s to bring in the funds.... just for some old coins with the portrait of a Egyptian Queen (a Queen who changed lovers as rapid as oil changes are needed for the Ducati&#039;s)....</p><p><br /></p><p>Did some research on Cleoptra VII, just because I am working hard to build a complete Marcus Antonius and a Great Roman Imperatorial coin collection (about 600-800 coins) and she certainly earns her place here! Don&#039;t ask me why I choose this period &amp; Marcus as well, it would be more easy and a bit more economic to create a collection of almost anything else.....</p><p><br /></p><p>Citate:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;Most numismatic portraits of Cleopatra VII Thea Notera (&quot;New Goddess&quot;), last Egyptian ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty and perhaps the most famous woman in all history aside from the Virgin Mary, have a tendency to make one wonder what the fuss was all about. How could any woman with so ferocious a nose and chin have so utterly captivated two of the most powerful Roman men of her age, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and have gone down in history as a legendary beauty and seductress? While some Classical historians are at pains to note that Cleopatra&#039;s looks were, in Plutarch&#039;s words, &quot;not altogether incomparable,&quot; nowhere does anyone suggest that she was anything less than pleasing to gaze upon. Cassios Dio even states, &quot;she was a woman of surpassing beauty, and at that time, when she was in the prime of her youth, she was most striking.&quot; The few surviving portrait busts that can definitely be attributed to Cleopatra are rather noncommittal on the matter of her beauty, since all but a few are bereft of that key feature, the nose, and perhaps the most famous one, the &quot;Berlin Cleopatra&quot; in the Altes Museum, has, according to some experts, been so extensively reworked in Renaissance times as to be untrustworthy. But the coin offered here, a bronze 80 drachma coin probably struck close to the outset of her reign in 50-48 BC, bears a soft, attractive profile that closely matches the Berlin bust, confirming its reliability&quot;.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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