CLEOPATRA VII and HER SON CAESARION , PTOLEMAIOS XV

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Cleopatra VII (51-30 BC.) and Ptolemaios XV Caesarion , (47 -30 BC.) Silver Tetradrachm (13.7 gm.; 23 mm.) The Egyptian tetradrachm of Cleopatra seem to show the facial features of the queen herself. Obv.: Diademed head in aegis. Rev.: BASILEWS PTOLEMAIOU , eagle standing left on thunderbolt, palm over right shoulder; date L K (= Year 20= 32 BC.) above headdress of Isis to left, PA (Paphos/ Cyprus) to right. BMC 119, 39. Cleopatra VII. Gaius Iulius Caesar. PtolemyXV Philopator Philometor Caesar, nicknamed Caesarion ( little Caesar )(lived June 23, 47 to August, 30 BC; reigned September 2, 44 BC to August, 30 BC) was the son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra VII of Egypt and the last pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt. He was nominated co-ruler by his mother on September 2, 44 BC at the age of three. Although he was probably king in name only, with Cleopatra keeping actual authority to herself, he was intended by her to be the successor to his father. When Caesar's great-nephew and adoptive son Octavian invaded Egypt in 30 BC, Cleopatra sent Caesarion to the port of Berenice for safety, but the Romans lured him back and captured him. Octavian captured the city of Alexandria on August 1, 30 BC, the date that marks the official annexation of Egypt to the Roman Republic. Cleopatra's consort Mark Antony had committed suicide prior to Octavian's entry into the capital; she followed his example by committing suicide on August 12, 30 BC. Octavian now had to deal with the fate of the captured teenage Pharaoh. Fearing that "too many Caesars", as he put it, would threaten his claim to being the sole successor to his adoptive father, he decided that his adoptive brother must be put to death. Octavian then assumed control of Egypt. The year 30 BC was considered the first year of the new ruler's reign according to the traditional chronological system of Egypt. In lists of the time Octavian himself appears as a Pharaoh and the successor to Caesarion. Cleopatra VII . Queen of Egypt 51–48 and 47–30 BC. When the Roman general Julius Caesar arrived in Egypt, he restored Cleopatra to the throne from which she had been ousted. Cleopatra and Caesar became lovers and she went with him to Rome. After Caesar's assassination in 44 BC she returned to Alexandria and resumed her position as queen of Egypt. In 41 BC she was joined t by Mark Antony, one of Rome's rulers. In 31 BC Rome declared war on Egypt and scored a decisive victory in the naval Battle of Actium off the west coast of Greece. Cleopatra fled with her 60 ships to Egypt; Antony abandoned the struggle and followed her. Both he and Cleopatra committed suicide. Cleopatra was Macedonian, and the last ruler of the Macedonian dynasty, which ruled Egypt from 323 until annexation by Rome 31. She succeeded her father Ptolemy XII jointly with her brother Ptolemy XIII, and they ruled together from 51 to 49 BC, when she was expelled by him. Her reinstatement in 48 BC by Caesar caused a war between Caesar and Ptolemy XIII, who was defeated and killed. The younger brother, Ptolemy XIV, was elevated to the throne and married to her, in the tradition of the pharaohs, although she actually lived with Caesar and they had a son, Ptolemy XV, known as Caesarion (he was later killed by Octavian). After Caesar's death, Cleopatra and Mark Antony had three sons. In 32 BC he divorced his wife Octavia, the sister of Octavian, who then induced the Roman senate to declare war on Egypt. Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra recounts that Cleopatra killed herself with an asp (poisonous snake) after Antony's suicide. Every item is unconditionally guaranteed to be genuine & authentic. read more

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