File photo of the old Italian lira. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP Stumbling across an enormous pile of cash during a clear-out of the attic is a fantasy come true - and it's exactly what happened to one ...

Antonio Pesenti, Communist economics expert, fired the first broadside in what the Italian press had dubbed the battle of the lira. Said Pesenti: “Unless the government revises its economic and ...

An heir to an Italian couple discovered one billion Italian lira in a house in Malta, but they have ended up with nothing because the currency is no longer in use and cannot be converted into ...