{"id":75092,"date":"2014-03-19T16:38:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T12:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=75092"},"modified":"2014-03-19T16:38:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T12:38:11","slug":"woman-finds-100-million-lire-in-her-safe-only-to-be-told-its-worth-nothing-because-italy-has-had-the-euro-for-more-than-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=75092","title":{"rendered":"Woman finds 100 MILLION lire in her safe &#8211; only to be told it&#8217;s worth NOTHING because Italy has had the euro for more than a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-75089\" alt=\" 100 \u0574\u056b\u056c\u056b\u0578\u0576 \u056c\u056b\u0580\u0561 \" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lire.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lire.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lire-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lire-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A woman who found 100 million lire in cash which would be worth \u00a343million has been told the money is worthless because the currency is no longer in use.<\/p>\n<p>Claudia Moretti discovered the cash a few months ago stashed in a safe at her uncle\u2019s home which she had inherited following his death.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Moretti, who lives in Pesaro on the Adriatic coast, was delighted to be given the house and said she was stunned when she found the fortune in the safe.<\/p>\n<p>However, her hopes of being set up for life were dashed when she went to Italy\u2019s central bank (Banca d&#8217;Italia) to have the cash exchanged into euros where she was told the money was now worthless.<\/p>\n<p>She hired lawyers to challenge the decision but they were unsuccessful because before adopting the euro currency on January 1 2002, Italy\u2019s central bank had set a time limit for the exchange of the lira.<\/p>\n<p>Any coins or banknotes not presented to the bank before December 6, 2011, were then declared worthless.<\/p>\n<p>Italy had the strictest time limit of all 18 eurozone countries, although Finland, France and Greece were just a year behind with a 2012 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The central banks of nine eurozone countries, including Germany and Ireland, set no limit for exchanging banknotes from the old national currency.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A woman who found 100 million lire in cash which would be worth \u00a343million&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":75089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}