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 ...

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 ...

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 ...