Ancients => The Buzz-word for the day is "Bee"

Yah, I always seem to be drawn to these busy lil' creatures, eh?

Yup, I scored another bee-coin (gotta love 'em, eh S-Yoda?)



The wonky flan-shape with the sweet bee definitely caught my attention ... yummy

Hey, this was probably my "gem" of this week's four scores ...

=> please put your hands together for Buzzy!!

IONIA, Ephesos. AR Drachm
Circa 500-420 BC
Diameter: 16 mm
Weight: 3.19 grams
Obverse: Bee with spiral antennas and no front legs; no ethnic
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square
Reference: Karwiese Series VI, Type 1A; SNG Kayhan 119 var. (obv. border type)
Other: VF, irregular flan, some roughness

 

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As per always => "please" don't be shy ... I'd love to see anything that you guys want to show me (even if it's the finger!!)



=> I wanna see it!! (oh and yes ... I do expect to see a few middle-finger shots!!)

... you guys are brutal (it's fricken awesome)

 

Oh, and I'm fairly sure that it'll be "16 mm" x 8 mm ... eh?

 

Nice coin lil brother. I was watching a very similar coin last week, but the bids went way beyond my budget. My only bee (poor condition that it is);

EPHESOS, IONIA
AE11
OBVERSE: E-F, bee
REVERSE: Forepart of stag recumbent right, head left
Sturck at Ephesos, ca 387-289 BC
11mm, 1.63 g
SNGCop 244

 

Nice coin Mr. Steve. I've got no bees to post. Every time you guys post a bee I am reminded that one has been on my short list for the last 4 years.

 

Bee and stag!

 

Nice bee Steve! No bees or bugs here, and I was going to be an Entomologist! I'll post Tyche with a bug head.


Macedonia, Amphipolis. Marcus Aurelius AE24

 

Awesome!! ... great coins, fellas!!

 

This thread bugs me!

 

a fine koin stevers, plus all post. i'm glad to see the long neck on your coins cause i thought there was something wrong wiff mine..i'm still not sure it's a stag.. looks like maybe a horse or a long legged small elephant

 

I am not sure if this is a bee or not. What do you think?


Greek, uncertain. (Crete, Praisos? Gabala, Phoenicia? Parion?) 2.13g 13mm
Obv: Winged gorgoneion, mouth closed, snake ties (?) along cheeks and below chin, two snakes protruding from top of head and crossing beaded circle.
Rev: Sometimes date ΘΠΡ; Bee with two or four wings, uncertain object (rose or prow?) sometimes to left.

The CNG catalogers attribute the two known specimens with this kind of wing to Praisos on Crete. There is a similar coin -- I think it is the same type, although the wings are a bit different -- attributed to Gabala, Phoenicia in Oliver Hoover's handbook of Greek coins. Another cataloger puts it with the gorgoneion/
aplustre fractions usually attributed to Arados.

Notice that the snakes on one example go right through the circle of dots that frames the image. No where else have I seen snakes pierce a frame. I’ve seen bust portraits break through dotted circle, but showing the snakes this way is a bold artistic choice.

 

Great posts everyone!!

Jeez, I can't believe I'm still bee-less!!

 

Great coin, Steve, and everyone else.

Still no bees for me.

 

I think @Bing took this lady's finger...



Oh Yeah... BEES!


Iona-Ephesos AR Obol Bee - opposing stag heads 340 BCE Seaby


Iona-Ephesos AR Hemi-Drachm-TriObol Bee - Incuse Sq TIMESIANAX 335-320 BCE Seaby 4368

 

Wow, great archaic drachm, Steve. I love those spiral antennas.

My old bee/stag hasn't been out for awhile.

 

Wow! NICE!

 

awesome bee! and what a weird flan...neat!


i'm embarrassed to say i don't have a bee..




it's friday night, so i'll catch a buzz to make up for it!

 

Nice coin!

 

I thought I didn't have any bees but forgot about these! (Does anyone else feel guilty when they forget about certain coins, like those coins will know and care about the slight? )



IONIA, Ephesus. Anoynmous
c. CE 1st century
Æ tessera, 19mm, 5.14 g
Obv: CKωΠI, stage kneeling left, head right; E to left, Φ to right
Rev: KHPIΛICωΔEΠPOCΠAΛVPIN surrounding a bee
Ref: SNG Copenhagen 355; BMC 186; SNG von Aulock 1875
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-magical-tessera.277808/
It's a tessera rather than a coin and the bee looks more like a housefly, so I hope the other cool bees on this page don't bully it

A flyspeck of a bee control mark on this drachm:

KINGS OF MACEDONIA, Philip III Arrhidaios
AR drachm, Sardes; struck c. 322-319/8 BCE
mounted in 14k pendant
Obv: head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress
Rev: ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ; Zeus Aetophoros seated left; TI above bee
Ref: Price P97
Set in a 14k bezel (purchased that way-- I didn't do it although I happily wear the pendant many times per week)

And a beehive

THRACE, Deultum. Philip I "The Arab"
CE 244-249
AE16, 3.05 gm
Obv: PHILIPPVS IMP M I; laureate, draped, cuirassed bust left, holding spear and shield
Rev: C-F P-D in two lines across fields, beehive on a base
Ref: Varbanov 3041 corr. (rev. description; Varbanov describes the beehive as on a temple, similar to the known type of Philip II, but on this coin it appears to be a simple base or stand)
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-honey-of-a-coin-philip-i-provincial-with-beehive.263409/