If that coin is really a portrait of Marc Antony, he wasn’t much to look at either. ...... Tamar1973
The middle one that looks like Sylvester Stallone would be Mark Antony. Cleopatra appeared on the other side of that coin. To be fair, how you looked on a coin depended on the skill and artistic license of the celator (the artist that engraved the coin die).
In the civil war between Antony and Octavian, Antony and Cleopatra had the eastern portion of the Empire and the celators in Egypt and Syria had a much cruder style at the time.
The coin below was engraved by a Roman celator during the Second Triumvirate when Octavian and Antony were allies and political equals, both with the same title of "Imperator" (IMP). At the time "Imperator" simply meant "Commander" and the commander of any Army minting coins for his Army could title himself an "Imperator".
As can be seen, Antony looks much more handsome when portrayed by the Roman celator. In this coin, the boyish Octavian had a peach-fuzz beard, a sign of mourning for his great-uncle Julius.
Compare that portrait of Antony with this much cruder one made by an eastern celator.
Other coin portraits of the period include:
Julius Caesar (By Roman celators. Skinny, chicken-necked and balding up front. In the first coin, he is only titled IMP, "Imperator". By the time the second coin was minted, he was titled DICT PERPETVO, "Perpetual Dictator".):
Brutus (By a Roman celator. Note that, as Commander of his Army, he also is titled IMP, "Imperator".):
Pompeii (By a Roman celator. Minted pothumously by his son Sextus circa 40 BC):
Another Antony and Cleopatra, circa 34 BC, Alexandria mint, again in a much cruder style of the eastern celators:
Caesar Agustus (Now all grown up, in sole power and made to look "absolutely maaaahvelous" by the Roman celator):
