The Brits had their own way by siphoning off the Papal ad Spanish gold that came to close to their boarders.
Also being rather poor compared to other countries at the time it could slaughter its population in the industrial age (1700) Germany was still too catholic to be modernization by large scale industry. Only the threat of starvation and threat of defeat by French and Russian and Austro-Hungarian military caused their rapid advancement and "thing" with perfection in production. Basically the past 5000 years have been about robbing your neighbor or enslaving whatever peoples you could to produce goods with them or from the land and resources they owned.
USA by Freemason / rotschlid were more crative made their fortune with debt, printing paper and lying about what they owned.
Despite the fact that tungsten (used for Edison/incandescent light bulb filaments) was still unheard-of, the metal-smiths of old always knew that once depositors dropped off their burdensome gold for fancy cheaper and handier coin or paper "(reserve) deposit receipt notes" they hardly ever wanted the damned stuff back, unless they were moving away.
The simple fact is that a "money" need only be a fungible and widely respected (national-socialist-economic in olden days) Medium of Work-Resource Exchange that is trusted by it's "Prime Resource" exchanging counter-parties. What it is (a Token of the "Prime" Work-Resources Exchanged) is what it is, there is no rational reason (other than some pre-barter condition) for it to ALSO BE ANYTHING ELSE WHICH IT IS NOT!
If a working entrepreneur wished to be compensated in eggs, potatoes, bananas, car tires, tool sheds or 3D HDTVs that condition could surely be arranged, but that would not make those (likely fungible) commodities a spendable Medium of Work-Resource Exchange with a "currency" of exchange-value you would call "money".