THE JULY ECO-QUIZ WAS:
What connection do coins have with a King with rather long hair and where?

No winners this month. The key to the answer was that the "hairy" king, is not human, but an animal, the lion ! The lion has been historically a frequent choice for names of currencies. In fact it was used on some of the first coins in history, as a lion's head was the emblem of Lydian King Croesus' state (561-546 BC) in Asia Minor. Some current examples include Leu (Romania), Lev (Bulgaria), Lek (Albania), Leone (Siera Leone).

Coin depicting the Lion of Nemea
being strangled by Hercules.
(4th c. BC, Syracuse, Sicily)

THE AUGUST ECO-QUIZ IS :
In the wild, its poison could kill up to 20 people, grown in captivity it is harmless. Name this creature!

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