The starting salary of a tenured university lecturer without family is about 36 million lire (?18,600) per year before tax, with full pension contributions; this corresponds to 13 net monthly payments of 2 million lire (?1033) each.
Italian designers, in fact, are busy coming up with a new selection of tiny coin purses, which were never worth having before because they could only hold 100- and 200-lira coins which, at 2,200 lire to the dollar, nobody much wanted.
Admission to the Villa Romana del Casale, which is open daily from 8 30 a.m. to about one hour before sunset, is $4 (at 1,991 lire to the dollar).
Before they leave Jim gives the children some lire.
I was moved two more times before my family bribed an officer with 400,000 Syrian lire to put my name on top of a list of detainees who would be heard by a judge.
In January 1994, right before the last maxi-devaluation, it took 15,000 Turkish lire to fetch a dollar.
In Italy, before euro adoption, almost all items cost so many thousands of lire that shopkeepers and restaurants stopped handing over small amounts of change, offering customers sweets instead.Coins are not the only casualties of monetary history.
Before that, a telegraphic receipt from April 3 , 1920 shows that Mr. Ferrara wired 75,000 lire from Banca Stabile to the Hotel Londres in Naples to reserve a vacation room there.
He demanded 500,000 lire.
Before the euro, Italian presses, especially in the Naples area, specialized in fake lire, dollars and French and Swiss francs, he said.
