Overall this is a much smaller body of surviving native texts than those of any other period of Ptolemaic Egypt. ↑ For the description of Cleopatra by Plutarch, who claimed that her beauty was not completely incomparable but that she had a captivating and stimulating personality, see Jones (2006, pp. 32–33). ↑ Fletcher (2008, p. 205) writes the following: Cleopatra was the only female Ptolemy to issue coins on her own behalf, some showing her as Venus-Aphrodite. Caesar now followed her example and, taking the same bold step, became the first living Roman to appear on coins, his rather haggard profile accompanied by the title Parens PatriaeFather of the Fatherland. ↑ For further information, see Raia & Sebesta (2017). ↑ There is academic disagreement on whether the following portraits are considered heads or busts. 