Coffee,
Logically there is a distinction between kings doing something and that making u enough to be a king. Maybe it’s a necessary condition for a king to print his own currency(it’s not anywhere in any halachic Sefer I bet) but that doesn’t mean it’s a sufficient condition to make one a king. If I print my own currency am I a king? Ur only reinforcing the question, why was he able to do kingly things if he didn’t fit the Rambam’s definition of a king? U can make up a new definition of a king but it isn’t the halachic one and it’s not what Rambam says in his book. Ur again redefining and in doing so admitting that there are different definitions of kings. So which ones are up for grabs and which ones aren’t? Which ones did the Rambam mean by his word? Ur not answering any of this