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All 15 states agreed.
The southern and Mexican states did not agree. Local banks produced their own notes. Took a war to become a country then country-wide legal tender.
Do you think the holey dollar was valid New Holland legal tender? After all NSW was the pre-cursor to the creation of Australia. Yet you will still find it listed as legal tender and of considerable value to collectors.
Interesting semantics and of little value.
The USD is getting old as a reserve currency that has allowed them to print $ without repercussions (think petro-dollar). I think this is rather more important ATM. The issue of day.