Very Rare Cleopatra and Mark Antony Denarius, Alexandria, VF-, R3 700DCLPMAN1

  
Denarius of Cleopatra and Mark Antony (39–30 BC), 17 mm, 3.13 g, silver-plated. Obverse: Draped bust of Cleopatra. Below, a ship’s prow /. CLEOPATRAE REGINAE REGVM FILIORVM REGVM. Reverse: Head of Mark Antony. Mint: Alexandria, around 34 BC. History: Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt, first allied herself with Julius Caesar, with whom she had a son, Caesarion. After Caesar’s death, she joined Mark Antony, a member of the Second Triumvirate, with whom she sought to restore Ptolemaic power in the East. Defeated by Octavian at Actium in 31 BC, Mark Antony committed suicide, and Cleopatra VII took her own life the following year, marking the end of Ptolemaic Egypt.