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: There are 29 coins in the full series, each representing a different Olympic sport.

On October 18, 2011, while scholars in London discussed the high-minded union of Byzantine churches, a different kind of history was being uncovered in the damp, mossy silence of the Ecuadorian Río de la Plata. Scientists reaching into the cool waters pulled up eighty-four tiny larvae—living blueprints of a species the world hadn't yet named. It was a day where the heavy weight of history in a London hall balanced perfectly with the microscopic weight of a new discovery in a tropical reserve, both forever cataloged under the same numerical string. [18 ] X (2011)

: Researchers collected 84 larvae of a new caddisfly species at the Reserva Los Cedros in Ecuador on this exact date. This data contributed to the taxonomic revision of the genus Leucotrichia and other Neotropical insects. : There are 29 coins in the full