The document describes a silver coin from ancient Rome that has the figures of Mark Anthony and Cleopatra on either side. It was commissioned after Anthony defeated Armenia to celebrate his relationship with Cleopatra, rather than his wife Octavia. The coin helped establish Cleopatra's status as a ruler alongside Anthony, though ancient Roman writings focused more on her intelligence and ambition than her beauty.

1. Loren Salisbury-Park
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February 20, 2013

3.  Silver
 About the size of a penny
 Mark Anthony on one side and Cleopatra on
the other

4.  Small forehead
 Long nose
 Thin lips
 Sharp chin

5.  Commissioned after Anthony defeated
Armenia
 Celebrates relationship with Cleopatra through
the coin
 Cleopatra instead of Octavia, Anthony’s wife is
on the coin

6.  Cleopatra on this coin, as well as being given a
title made her a ruler as well in more than just
name
 Her beauty is not why her people loved her, it
was her intelligence

7.  Romans never wrote about Cleopatra’s beauty
 Her intelligence and zealousness was wrote
about
 It wasn’t until Shakespeare’s “Anthony and
Cleopatra “ that people started seeing her as
beautiful
 Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are who
we think of when we think of Cleopatra and
Anthony.