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Legal tender known as "United States Notes" were first issued in and a centralized system for printing the notes was first established in Non-interest bearer notes continued to gain in popularity across a system of competing local currencies with the establishment of a national banking system and establishment of the Federal Reserve system in The USD's relation to gold and its eventual delinking had a lengthy process.
The dollar was devalued in terms of its gold content and only allowed to be done so for international transactions. By the s, this partial gold standard became difficult to maintain. In , the requirement to hold gold reserves against Federal Reserve notes was repealed. In , the U. In and , the dollar was fully devalued against gold.
In October , the definition of the dollar in terms of gold was officially removed from statute and the USD and gold no longer had any link. The reach of the U. Furthermore, the U. Virgin Islands. There is a continuous discussion on if the international role of the USD is becoming less important over time. The rise of the euro and China's increasing presence in the global economy all feed into this idea.
However, this remains to be fairly unsubstantiated and the strength of the dollar in international markets remains strong according to a variety of studies, particularly because of the stability of the U. The currency is the most widely used in international transactions as well as the one considered to be the safest store of value.
A small but perfect example of this is how the USD is accepted as a means of currency in many emerging market nations when the USD is by no means used as the currency in that nation.
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