It is understood only 10% of the hoped-for 100,000 taxpayers came forward by the deadline, though accountants PwC said they expected nearer 13,000.
A National Lottery spokeswoman said: "Unfortunately, I can confirm that the ticketholder did not come forward within the deadline to claim their prize and has now sadly missed out on this staggering amount of money.
If a UK institution or private buyer does not come forward by the deadline then the export licence for the ring will be granted.
If things begin to look overloaded, they will move forward the ordering deadline for next-day deliveries to spread demand.
The commission will rule next week, after Chelsea have put forward their submissions; the deadline is Tuesday at 6pm.
It will also herald an advertising campaign, expected to cost £40m, to encourage customers to come forward and beat the deadline.
To win over wavering colleagues, the sponsors have brought the deadline forward to a rather unrealistic 2014.
The hope is another centre-back and a forward will follow before the deadline passes on 1 September.
With that kind of demand -- coupled with a competing Russian system called Glonass and talk of another from the European Union -- it made sense to move the deadline forward.
The claimants came forward, many just before the deadline late Wednesday, after being encouraged to do so by the church itself and by victims' advocates.
In an effort to reduce the number of coal-fired plants, the Chinese government has brought forward by 15 years the deadline to develop a nuclear power plant using the radioactive element thorium instead of uranium.
