Queen B! We found this royal insect in our copy of Charles Butler’s The Femininʻ Monarchiʻ, or The Histori of Beeʻs (Oxford, 1634), which was likely previously owned by Benjamin Franklin. #MacroMonday
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Ear of barley on a stater of Metapontion in Lucania
Date: 530-510 BCE
Period: Archaic Greece
Region: Matera Province, Basilicata, Megale Hellas [Magna Graecia], Italy
Owned By: Classical Numismatic Group
From: Elliott, F. R. (Franklin Reuben), 1817-1878. Hand book of practical landscape gardening. Rochester, N.Y. : D.M. Dewey, Horticultural Books, 1877
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Persian, 1901, Konstantin Korovin.
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“Ear of barley on a stater of Metapontion in Lucania
Date: 530-510 BCE
Period: Archaic Greece
Region: Matera Province, Basilicata, Megale Hellas [Magna Graecia], Italy
Owned By: Classical Numismatic Group
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