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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 25908313, member: 128351"]On the tetradrachms, which are often found in decent condition, they made her look like Antony... Same face !... She is ugly on these silver coins. I am convinced her portrait on the AE diobols is much more accurate. All ancient authors are unanimous about the fact she was an attractive woman. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1649983[/ATTACH]</p><p>(not my coins, of course...)</p><p><br /></p><p>Cleopatra is one of the very few ancient celebrities of which an autograph has been preserved. On this papyrus, a royal decree granting fiscal privileges to a Roman merchant doing business in Egypt, the last word γινέσθωι (let it be) is the handwritten signature of the queen.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1649984[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 25908313, member: 128351"]On the tetradrachms, which are often found in decent condition, they made her look like Antony... Same face !... She is ugly on these silver coins. I am convinced her portrait on the AE diobols is much more accurate. All ancient authors are unanimous about the fact she was an attractive woman. [ATTACH=full]1649983[/ATTACH] (not my coins, of course...) Cleopatra is one of the very few ancient celebrities of which an autograph has been preserved. On this papyrus, a royal decree granting fiscal privileges to a Roman merchant doing business in Egypt, the last word γινέσθωι (let it be) is the handwritten signature of the queen. [ATTACH=full]1649984[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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