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4 unusual facts about Italian Lira


1936 Coppa Italia Final

About 10,000 people followed the final match in Genoa, for a 62,000 Italian lire profit.

Giannini sextuplets

The task was not easy; Rosanna Giannini estimated that she washed five loads of laundry every day, and that train travel for the entire family cost 250,000 lira a month (€195 in 2009).

Giorgio Sideri

Giorgio Sideri Callapoda came briefly into the news when his copy of a previously unknown fifteenth-century portolan chart by Fra Mauro was sold at auction in Milan, October 1984 at a price of 900 million Italian liras.

Salvatore Diomante

The Quattroporte offered a sumptuous interior and a correspondingly high price tag of 210 million lire.


Bettino Craxi

Some of the students waved 1,000-lire bills, singing Bettino, take these too! to the tune of Guantanamera.

Valeri Bojinov

Bojinov was discovered at the age of 14 by Lecce sports director Pantaleo Corvino, while playing for Pietà Hotspurs, and signed for just 30,000,000 ITL (around €15,000).


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