Worries about world currency and financial markets played an important role in the decision, according to one of the Bundesbank officials involved.
It is now pegged to a basket of world currencies.
Points are also available for purchase using real world currency.
Russia is not alone in thinking about the creation of a world "super currency".
Their role has now been taken over by (paper or electronic) United States dollars as a world currency.
But you remember that stuff I was saying about the one world currency?
There has to be a high level of trust between different countries before a true world currency could be created.
A world currency might even undermine national sovereignty of smaller states.
The natural replacement of the dollar is a single world currency administered by a global investment bank.
Ten years after its introduction, the euro is a world currency.
Is the US dollar going to be knocked off its perch as the only true global currency?
The Spanish Dollar became the world's first global currency.
On the contrary, British industry declined in tandem with the pound's status as a global currency.
Now that there will be two powerful global currencies, why shouldn't the new big guy on the block exercise his clout from time to time?
The song deals with the global currency of popular music.
The stock market bubble was wildly influential in determining the performance of global currencies.
Hence some assert that gold was the world's first global currency.
This reinforced the dominance of the US dollar as a global currency.
On the one hand, during its 12-year existence, the euro has proved to be the most stable of the global currencies.
The euro will not automatically become a global currency.