[Home, My eBay, Site Map, Sign In/Out] [eBay logo] [Main Navigation] [Browse Sub-Navigation] ORC5916 Cleopatra VII portrait obol VF Item # 1355297219 Coins:Coins: World:Ancient:Greek Bidding is closed for this item. rich44@mindspring.com[Spacer](82)[Spacer][star] is the winner and has completed Checkout. Buyer and seller can view Checkout Summary [Image] Learn more Payment Details Payment Instructions Item price US WE DO NOT ACCEPT PAYPAL --- PLEASE USE $750.00 CHECKOUT AND EBAY PAYMENTS! --- NO CHARGE United States Shipping and handling US $0.00 FOR SHIPPING (except to Italy, $7.00). --- Shipping insurance per item (not available) -- FOR OTHER PAYMENT OPTIONS, GO TO: Sales tax (none) US $0.00 http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/oldromancoins.com -------------------------------------------------- [Spacer] [Show description]CurrentlyUS $750.00 First bid US $750.00 Quantity 1 # of bids 1 bid history [Leave feedback] Auction has ended with Buy It Now. 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[Image] Seller Services Checkout summary | Relist this item Seller assumes all responsibility for listing this item. You should contact the seller to resolve any questions before bidding. Auction currency is U.S. dollars ( US $ ) unless otherwise noted. Description Classical Cash and [Image] Please click the banner above to go to our eBay "AboutMe" home page. present -- our 159th eBay Sale! [Image] [Image] If the photos above do not load, click here for Obverse and click here for Reverse ORC5916 Cleopatra VII portrait obol VF Cleopatra VII, Æ obol, (7.21g) Tripolis, Phoenicia, 36-35 BC, Diademed and draped bust right, of style similar to the bronzes from Alexandria. / TPIROLITWN [L B] Nike standing right on prow, holding wreath and palm branch. RPC 4510 (4 examples known to RPC); Vagi 215. VF / better, black patina. The portraits on the two bronze denominations from Egypt were considered the most realistic by Newell. The style of this very rare coin matches those of Egypt, while those of the other Phoenician mints are more crude. The facial features of Cleopatra are unusual and well known. Judging from her coins, she was not particularly attractive in the classical sense of beauty, though she was portrayed historically as one of the most beautiful woman of her era. In 66 AD, Plutarch noted she was less pretty than she was charming, "Her own beauty, . . . was in itself not altogether incomparable, nor such as to strike those who saw her. But the charm of her presence was irresistible, and there was an attraction in her person and in her talk together with a peculiar force of character which pervaded her every work and action, and laid all who associated with her under its spell." Her sharp, hooked nose and prominent chin are almost masculine. Nose and chin are facial features inherited from her ancestor Ptolemy I Soter, whose rather grotesque portraits also show a very large chin, and a prominent nose. Almost 1600 years after Plutarch, Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) would write, "If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed." The chin of Cleopatra is perhaps her strongest portrait feature. There was exceptionally heavy intermarriage among her Greek-Ptolemaic ancestors. These incestuous relationships produced heirs. The only ancestors of Cleopatra outside of the direct dynastic descendants of Ptolemy I Soter were Arsinoe I, Berenike II and Cleopatra I, each of whom was each descended from the royal houses of other generals of Alexander. All this meant that Ptolemy I Soter, while eight to ten generations back, was an ancestor of Cleopatra VII many times over. His genetic contribution to the last Greek Queen of Egypt must have been high, equal to that of a great-great-grandfather. (For an online listing of Ptolemaic ancestry, see: http://www.geocities.com/christopherjbennett/ptolemies/ptolemies.htm ) Cleopatra's lips were rather full, leading a small (probably incorrect) minority of recent revisionist scholars to suggest that she may have had some African ancestry as well as the well-known Greek and Egyptian background. Her well-documented ancestry is almost 100% Macedonian Greek. The queen's hair is portrayed as long and straight, gathered at a round bun behind the head, as was the hairstyle of the time. On Roman coins, contemporary Imperial women such as Fulvia, Octavia, Julia, and Livia are shown similarly coifed. 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