Got Bugs ??????

Time to post some insects ......


Bee / Ionia /circa 280 BC

 

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Bug, San Marino, 1974

 

Nice! I wouldn't think insects would be a popular or usual coin design.

 

Gettin' itchy all over........

 

Here's another one with bees - Italy 10 centesimi.

 

Not many bug lovers out there.

 

I found a Lincoln with a squashed bug stuck to it roll searching once. I knew I should have taken a picture of it!
:yes:

 

Ones posted here are the only ones I have ever seen.

 

Not my pic or coin but saw this when hunting down my weasel coin/ avatar. The set the weasel coin would normaly come with includes a bug (but i bought just the weasel coin not the set)

 

Here is a bee from Slovenia ...

Christian

 

I'm trying to think about all the coins I have but I can't remember any others. Animals are popular, but not so much bugs.

 

Norwy 10 Ore

 

I just ordered this one - it has my favorite insect:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kazakhstan-...1272966?pt=US_World_Coins&hash=item3ccca30306

 

Ukraine.
2 hryvni 2006.
The Cricket.

 

Malta.
3 mils 1972. The bee.

 

Didn't think I had any with bugs on, and then remembered this one, which is actually in my "for sale" tray! 1792 Halfpenny token from Birmingham - always rely on the 18th Century tokens to turn up the unusual topics!

 

Back in those days, bees (and beehives) showed up on quite a few tokens. After all, the bee represents both wealth and work, and also the loyalty to some supreme ruler ... Here are, from an Austrian forum, three French jetons (not mine) from the 18th century:

1701: http://www.numismatik-cafe.at/download/file.php?id=8893&mode=view
1715: http://www.numismatik-cafe.at/download/file.php?id=8894&mode=view
1778: http://www.numismatik-cafe.at/download/file.php?id=8895&mode=view

Christian

 

Not my coin and not my pics but I`ve met the spider, they used to live in the airvents of the brickwork of our house when I lived in Sydney.
One of its arachnid cousins bit me while I lived there, great for rapid weight loss while lying on your back for a week, LOL