Cleopatra was the last of the Egyptian Pharaohs. This bronze coin, from the University of Glasgow's Hunterian Museum, is one of the best surviving examples of the rare portraits of Cleopatra.

Harvard University classicist Irene Soto Marín tells Hyperallergic’s Isa Farfan that the image minted on the coins is an “official” portrait of Cleopatra; currency like this helped cement ...