Hooked Nose Cleopatra

Cleopatra has extraordinary ability to bewitch and beguile men has become the stuff of legend. Her seductive power has little to do with her looks as a recent finding states. Cleopatra has no beauty as seen in many movies and pictures. The Egyptian queen is portrayed with shallow forehead, pointed chin and hooked nose. This portrait of Cleopatra found from a coin in bank vault. It makes her look more like a witch than a queen. So think of it! A witch created a magic because of the preconceived notion of being beautiful! On the reverse side of the coin, we find Mark Anthony who looks a little better with bulging eyes and a thick neck! Bulging eyes?? Was he suffering from exopthalmic goiter or genetically so? Thinking how this turned up? But we all know fact is stranger than fiction!! Now just close your eyes...picturize Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor....you will find a heaven-and-hell difference! Isn't it?

This coin was hidden away for 85 years. This went on a public show in Wednesday at Newcaste University's Shefton Museum. Lindsay Allason-Jones being the director of the museum thinks that it is quite incredible. For years, we have regarded Anthony and Cleopatra as sex symbols. But here we find the two people who are quite different from our idea! She points out that if you look closely then you will see Cleopatra forgotten to put her teeth! Isn't it crude? Cleopatra without teeth! Oh,..no! Our dream girl created by Elizabeth Taylor just vanished in thin air! You wanted to know who is standing there in her place?????? A woman with false teeth, hooked nose and a pointed chin!

The coin made of silver is a denarius coin dating back 32 B.C. and the size of a 5 pence piece. It was the collection of Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne. The society's collections were examined for the museum called Great North Museum to be build on 2009. It is not rare but quite an object of interest among numismatics.