The bee on coins of the Renaissance 

I don't know a bee-coin of the Middle Ages.  The most of these coins are without a picture ore with the portrait of a God.  Here in Europe are de most coins with a portrait of Christ.  But from the Renaissance on, you find tokens and medals with bee's and beehives.

My 2 most lovely coins are the one from Brussels (family d'Hoyenbrugge) with the text PATIOR UT POTIAR (I will try, till I have what I want). The bear continues trying until he has the honey.  The man who made this token tried for a long time to become mayor of Brussels. The coin was made in 1630 and it was not until 1634 that he became mayor.

The second one is one of Philips de Croy: It shows the hand of God issuing from the clouds holding a beehive with bees around.  The legend reads: DULTIA MIXTA MALIS (sweetness is mixed with pain), or: no honey without beestings, or: no sweetness without worse. In almost all these coins the bees are shown as aggressor, they used them mostly as symbolic of being capable of bearing arms.