Changing the face of Cleopatra

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2007/02/changing_the_face_of_cleopatra.html
This is quite fun. The page doesn't go into great depth about the coin (that has been covered elsewhere), but it does show a page of photographs of how Cleopatra has been depicted by modern imaginations. "Analysis of a recently found and well-preserved coin shows a rather plainer profile than we'd come to imagine - large nose, well we expected that, and a rather sharp chin.So, just for the hell of it, here's a quick reminder of some of the ways Cleopatra has been portrayed in art and the myth perpetuated."

There is also a link to a page entitled "Was Cleopatra Beautiful?" quoting various Classical references, and data from coins.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/miscellanea/cleopatra/bust.html