Hi David,
I'm a little bid late to respond, but
still I try it, because, I think, I have
good information for you. I’m also a beekeeper and coin collector. I collect coins with bees on it.
Artemis is the goddess of
Ephesos and is worshiped as the goddess of hunting (stag) and
fertility (bee). That is why you see a bee and a stag on the coins of
Ephesos. But there are much more
ancient coins with bee on it.
The
ancient coins are my biggest interest. I keep a database on my computer with coins with bees and beehives (all with pictures). I have in this database 1765
ancient coins with bees and about 985 coins and medals from the renaissance till these days. Every day I find on internet new items that I put in this database. I’ve made a list of ancient coin with bees, very interesting and you will see there are many ancient city’s who has bees on their coins. The list is a pdf-list, it will take a time to download, because it is big (there are many pictures on it). You can find the list here:
http://www.beecoins.com/list/listancientbeecoins120505.pdf If you have more information about "bee coins" I'm always interested. If you like more information about "bee coins" I'm always helpfule. It is always
good to exchange information to each other. My English is not so
good, but I
hope I make to to big mistakes :-)
Best regards, Piet
PS: I have also a website, but it is not updated it is a site from I think 2004 :-) very old for internet-sites see
www.beecoins.com