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Well firstly global in this context just means that most financial authorities held the currency as a reserve, which for a lot of history I believe mostly only european countries had centralized financial authorities. So we're talking about european reserves for much of history. With that said:

  florentine florin  
  venetian ducat  
  portugese real  
  spanish real  
  dutch guilder  
  french livre  
  british sterling  
  USD
to name 8

everyone is capable of deciding if changing reserve currencies every ~100 years is "littered" or not, but it easily passes as being commonplace in my opinion when you're talking about a millennia of history.



Oh nice work! And the failed ones were all global reserve currencies as we would recognise them today ... right?


Happy to give a response if you'd like to argue your point, but otherwise this just seems like a snarky comment for sake of being snarky on the internet.


My point is really well established. Many real currencies, some failed. Many cryptocurrencies, most failed. The "snark" appears to be required to actually drive the point home. I don't care if you want to argue your point.




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