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use caution when searching for Google images of Cleo, they are not necessarily for children (and most are of modern stuff, in some cases, a little too modern):

http://web.it.kth.se/~dick56/Travel/London/Cleopatra.jpg
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/cleopatra/photos/ptolemaic_th.gif
http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/cleo_egyptcoin2.jpg
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rauhn/cleopatra.jpg
http://wesclark.com/jw/cleopatra.jpg
http://gloriaderoma.com/CLEOPATRA.JPG
http://www.dl.ket.org/latin1/gallery/people/images/cleopatra_.jpg
http://www.sangha.net/messengers/Cleopatra3.gif

source of the preceding image:
http://sangha.net/messengers/cleopatra/all.htm

(not sure about which Cleopatra is in this next image)
http://www.fief.org/kathleen/Athens/large/Cleopatra.jpg

Browsing Roman Imperatorial Coins of Cleopatra
http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/imp/cleopatra/i.html

and, a related story, also originally from Discover, but now probably existing only on my hard drive...

Cleopatra's Signature Discovered
By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery.com News
October 3, 2000
http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000928/hi_cleopatra.html

Sept. 28, 2000 — The handwriting of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra has emerged from a Greek papyrus stored for more than a century in a mummy casing in the Egyptian Museum in Berlin, Germany, a Dutch scholar claimed yesterday.

"Cleopatra's signature can be found in just one word: 'genestho,' which means 'Make it so!' It is the formula for the royal authorization, and had to be added by the ruler's own hand," said Peter Van Minnen, a Dutch Academy research fellow in religious studies at the University of Groningen.

There are plenty of royal ordinances from Egypt during the rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty (323 - 30 B.C.) that include royal subscriptions, but they are copies embedded in official correspondence or engraved inscriptions.

Van Minnen insists the document he discovered is an original. The main text was the work of a secretary, while the subscription "genestho," written in a different hand, was signed by the queen herself.