Athenian owls, Roman denarii, British sovereigns, US dollars. There have been many pseudo reserve currencies down the ages. Now the governor of the People's Bank of China has called for a new global currency “disconnected from individual nations”. Russia, too, wants to move away from a world dominated by the dollar. Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev suggests such a currency could be called the acmetal – an amalgam of “acme” and “capital.”
雅典貓頭鷹銀幣(Athenian owl)、羅馬迪納裏厄斯銀幣(Roman Denarius)、英國沙弗林金幣(British Sovereign)、美元——自古以來出現過許多種準儲備貨幣。如今,中國人民銀行(PBoC)行長呼籲創造一種新的「與單個國家脫鉤」的全球性貨幣。俄羅斯也希望告別由美元主宰的世界。哈薩克總統努爾蘇丹•納扎爾巴耶夫(Nursultan Nazarbayev)則建言,這種全球性貨幣可稱作「Acmetal”——一個由「Acme」(頂點)和「Capital」(資金)合成的詞。