Foreign Medals - CARL LINNAEUS (1956)/1970, by by A. Galtié., FRANCE Portrait of the botanist. Rev. profile of a flower, showing the pistils and stamens, SYSTEMA / NATURÆ / 1735.MdP. IV 780BThe pistils and stamens are the elements of the flowers on which he based his classification system. Linnaeus is known as the "father of modern taxanomy".AE 68.2 mm Almost extremely fine