* Italian lira

* September 16 – Black Wednesday: The pound sterling and the Italian lira are forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

While Italy experienced continuous economic progress in the 1980s, the Italian economy was being undermined by constant devaluation of the Italian lira and the issuing of excessive amounts of high-interest treasury bonds, so that, between 1982 and 1992, the excessive budget deficit build half of the deficit still plaguing the country today.

* Italian East African lira

The following decade saw a revival of a number of traditions, including Ciccio Busacca's fusions of Sicilian folk styles, central Italy's jazzy modern folk, pioneered by Canzoniere del Lazio, the re-appearance of the lira through the work of Re Niliu, the popularization of diverse genres of northern Italian music and some of the work of world-famous tenor Enrico Caruso, who revitalized Naples ' canzone napoletana tradition.

The British pound derived from the Roman libra, which is why the pound ( mass ) is often initialised to ' lb '; along with the French livre and the Italian lira, when, during Middle Ages the European countries adopted the LSD system.

Some of them, those official in former Italian states and in countries formerly belonging to the Ottoman Empire, are called pound in English, while in the local languages their official name is lira.

The inhabitants used the Italian lira for money, so in 1850 the government issued stamps identical to those for the rest of Austria, but denominated in values from 5 to 45 centesimi.

* Italian lira, the former currency of Italy that had ISO 4217 code ITL

A grid ( known as the Parity Grid ) of bilateral rates was calculated on the basis of these central rates expressed in ECUs, and currency fluctuations had to be contained within a margin of 2. 25 % on either side of the bilateral rates ( with the exception of the Italian lira, which was allowed a margin of 6 %).

The same symbol is ( or was ) used for similarly named currencies in some other countries and territories, such as the Irish pound, Gibraltar pound, Australian pound, and Italian lira.

* Italian Somaliland lira

The pound, also known as the lira ( / plural λίρες and Turkish: lira, from the Latin libra through the Italian lira ), was the currency of Cyprus, including the Sovereign Base Areas in Akrotiri and Dhekelia, until 31 December 2007, when the Republic of Cyprus ( and Malta ) adopted the euro.

Not long after the Italian occupation and the transformation of Ethiopia into Italian East Africa, the Italian lira was introduced ( 15 July 1936 ) and Ethiopian banknotes were withdrawn from circulation at 3 lire per talar ( birr ).

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Between 1999 and 2002, the Italian lira was officially a national subunit of the euro.

Before unification, many of the Italian states used the lira as their currency.

Other currencies replaced by the Italian lira included the Lombardy-Venetia pound, the Two Sicilies piastra, the Tuscan fiorino, the Papal States scudo and the Parman lira.

Italian language | Italian translation of Herodotus ' Histories by Count Matteo Maria Boiardo, published in Venice, Aldine Press in 1502 ( 1533?

Ugolino della Gherardesca was an Italian nobility | nobleman who, together with his sons Gaddo and Uguccione and his grand-sons Nino and Anselmuccio were detained in the Torre dei Gualandi | Muda, in March 1289.

Italy | Italian physicist Alessandro Volta showing his " Battery ( electricity ) | battery " to France | French emperor Napoleon I of France | Napoleon Bonaparte in the early 19th century.

Emaciation | Emaciated male inmate at the Italian Rab concentration camp.

Alessandra Mussolini, the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, and a prominent Italian Neofascism | neofascist politician.

Fiorello LaGuardia between two Italian officers in front of a Caproni Ca. 44 | Ca. 44, c. 1918

File: Southern Italian Peninsula at Night. JPG | Astronaut photograph highlighting the night-time appearance of southern Italy.

A 15th century copy the The Wars of the Jews | Jewish War in Italian

Italian / French Propaganda Postcard from World War I era showing a caricature of Kaiser William II, German Emperor | Wilhelm II biting into the world

One of many Italian people | Italian restaurants in the Heights commercial district of North Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Italian politician, entrepreneur, and media proprietor

Italy | Italian full-rigged ship Amerigo Vespucci ( ship ) | Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976

A Smoking ban | no-smoking sign in both Sardinian and Italian language | Italian.

Italian and Spanish cards of the 15th century used swords, batons ( or wands ), cups, and coins ( or rings ).

* The first European gold coins are minted in the Italian city of Florence, and are known as florins.

* 1252 – The first European gold coins are minted in the Italian city of Florence, and are known as florins.

Silver pennies, based on the Roman Denarius, became the staple coin of Britain around the time of King Offa, circa AD 796, and similar coins, including Italian denari, French deniers, and Spanish dineros circulated throughout Europe.

Each of the eight coins can have the same design ( such as Belgian coins ), or can vary from coin to coin ( such as Italian coins ).

Italian euro coins have a design unique to each denomination, though there is a common theme of famous Italian works of art from one of Italy's renowned artists.

There are no Italian euro coins dated earlier than 2002, even though they were certainly minted earlier, as they were first distributed to the public in December 2001.

The choice of the design of the coins was left to the Italian public by means of a television broadcast where alternative designs were presented, letting the people vote by calling a certain telephone number.

Umberto was more acceptable to the Italian people: he and his wife Maria José were young, elegant and cultivated, and presented a stark contrast to the old, rough Vittorio Emanuele, who was unknown for any particular activity, apart from his collection of coins ( 114, 000 items ).

( It now appears on the national side of Italian 20 eurocent coins ).

( See also: Italian euro coins )

After the Italian occupation, stainless-steel 0. 20, 0. 50, 1 and 2 lek and silver 5 and 10 lek were introduced, with the silver coins only issued that year but aluminium-bronze 0. 05 and 0. 10 lek introduced in 1940.

These coins were issued until 1941 and bear the portrait of Italian King Victor Emmanuel III on the obverse and the Italian eagle and fasces on the reverse.

The name groat also refers to a range of other European coins such as those of the Italian peninsula known as a grosso including the grosso of Venice and the Kraków grosz.

The Greek colonies in southern Italy had been using coins for most of this time, and this technology had also been adopted by a number of other Italian cities, such as Naples, Taranto, Velia, Heraclea, Metapontum, Thurii and Croton, who produced them in large quantities during the 4th century BC to pay for their wars against the inland Italian groups encroaching on their territory.

For example, the image appears on the national side of Italian 1 euro coins, chosen by the Economy Minister ( and later President of the Italian Republic ) Carlo Azeglio Ciampi for its high symbolic meaning of " man as a measure of all things ".

Since coins in Europe in the Middle Ages and the Early modern period ( the French écu, Louis, teston d ' argent, denier, double, franc ; the Spanish doubloon, pistole, real ; the Italian florin, ducat or sequin ; the German and Austrian thaler ; the Dutch gulden, etc.