a kind of lira nostalgia has surfaced here more than three years after the euro was introduced in Italy and throughout most of the European Union as the common currency and a key symbol of ...

Forthwith the lira fell from 630 to more than 700 to ... Gold now backs 17% of Italy’s currency. Technically, the difference between gold reserves and dollar reserves is not great, but ...

Packed in suitcases and hidden in the false bottoms of automobiles, lire are being smuggled out of Italy at the rate of more than $200 million a month. In any other nation, such a capital flight ...

The quantitative easing programme that once helped the eurozone countries borrow money at ... Turkey's lira dropped to its record level, investors have expressed fears over Italy's commitment ...

Italy’s proposed mini T-Bills may be pie in the sky for now, but it appears the country already has another currency floating around -- the old lira. A senior police officer revealed this week ...

Investors sold off Italian government bonds last month after Berlusconi said he was in favour of printing a "new lira" for domestic use, to pump money into the economy. Under his plan euros would ...

ROME (Reuters) - If Italy leaves the euro ... for how the euro zone's third-largest economy should go about returning to the lira if necessary. The 80-page pamphlet was overlooked when it first ...

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 ...

Under current legislation, it’s not possible to convert lira Rome: Italy’s proposed mini T-bills may be pie in the sky for now, but it appears the country already has another currency floating ...