Coffee is a new world crop, so, no espresso.
But I am confident of the dating of these coins to the time of Cleopatra and Augustus.
The context of archaeological finds of these coins on
Cyprus does seem to date them to about that time period. Along with many other coins made near
Egypt at that time.
I don't recall if
Cyprus was even under
Ptolemaic control during
Cleopatra's reign. A couple of her forbears
had been relegated to rule
Cyprus at the end of the 2nd C and tried to fight their way back into control of
Alexandria from there. Most of the (formerly extensive)
Ptolemaic empire outside
Egypt had eroded away during the previous hundred years, absorbed into the growing
Roman empire. Antony 'gave' some small
Roman territories in the eastern Mediterranean
area to
Cleopatra and coins with her
portrait appeared at some towns outside
Egypt. Andrew
Meadows has made a pretty
good case, however, that some of those (e.g. from Orthoseia) were made in
Cleopatra's
honor rather than under her authority.
That said, these
anepigraphic one-denomination '
Zeus Salaminos' coins don't tell us much about who made them or why. I'm reluctant to tie them to
Cleopatra other than by accident of their chronology.
PtolemAE