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  • 1 Rhine Gold Ducat, Baden - Durlach, Germany, 1840

    date made
    1840
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    1840
  • 1/2 Kopek, Russia, 1900

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    1900
  • Paspalum notatum Flüggé

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    22 Mar 1925
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    1904-10-29
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    1904-11-29
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    1902
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    (1981)
  • Souls of Puerto Rico

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    1982
  • Untitled, from the Portfolio The New York Collection for Stockholm

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    1973
  • Ocimum basilicum L.

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    13 Dec 2003

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