How did Romania manage to save its currency in the 2000s by just dropping the last couple of zeros? Wouldn’t other countries be able to do the same?

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How did Romania manage to save its currency in the 2000s by just dropping the last couple of zeros? Wouldn’t other countries be able to do the same?

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Relevant:

[How Fake Money Saved Brazil](https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-fake-money-saved-brazil)

I read this article recently, Brazil managed to stop superinflation by creating a new denomination, but it is not as simple as that.