Woman Finds 100 MILLION Lire in Her Safe - Only to be Told it's Worth NOTHING

This must be heart breaking to the woman in question..... A woman who found 100 million lire in cash which would be worth £43million has been told the money is worthless because the currency is no longer in use. Claudia Moretti discovered the cash a few months ago stashed in a safe at her uncle’s home which she had inherited following his death. 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.



However, her hopes of being set up for life were dashed when she went to Italy’s central bank (Banca d'Italia) to have the cash exchanged into euros where she was told the money was now worthless. She hired lawyers to challenge the decision but they were unsuccessful because before adopting the euro currency on January 1 2002, Italy’s central bank had set a time limit for the exchange of the lira.

Any coins or banknotes not presented to the bank before December 6, 2011, were then declared worthless.
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. The central banks of nine eurozone countries, including Germany and Ireland, set no limit for exchanging banknotes from the old national currency.