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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 8006103, member: 42773&quot;]There&#039;s a fly on my coin! The earliest bees of Ephesos were rather crude - they looked more like flies...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1388928[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Ionia. Ephesos. <i>Phanos,</i> circa 550-500 BC. AR Hemiobol, 5mm, 0.37g. Bee / Quadripartite incuse square. Karwiese Series III; Rosen 572. <i>Ex-Savoca 5th Blue Auction, Lot 453, 2/24/2018.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Mine isn&#039;t that crude actually. Sometimes they looked like flying spiders...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1388937[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>We assume they were bees because eventually Ephesos would develop a sophisticated and long-standing apian iconography on their coins. Just to be safe though, auction catalogs sometimes describe these 6th century BC bugs as &quot;insect, probably a bee.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>We haven&#039;t had a proper insect thread in a while, so post your creepy-crawlies![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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