# 39,000 Lire **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 19, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/39-000-lire/396583 "2007-03-19T16:52:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/39-000-lire/396583/1 "2007-03-19T16:52:52Z")
I’ve got 39,000 Lire (pre-euro italian bank notes) from a trip to italy about 10 years ago. I imagine that an Italian bank would still exchange them for euro, so I was thinking about mailing them off to a charity in Italy. Anyone have the address of a worthy cause in Italy that could use a few bucks? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/39-000-lire/396583/2 "2007-03-19T18:36:45Z")
[QUOTE=shelbo] I’ve got 39,000 Lire (pre-euro italian bank notes) from a trip to italy about 10 years ago. I imagine that an Italian bank would still exchange them for euro, so I was thinking about mailing them off to a charity in Italy. Anyone have the address of a worthy cause in Italy that could use a few bucks? [/QUOTE] Hmm. 39,000 Italian lira is about USD 26.78. There’s postage, too. The Italian central bank, and only the Italian central bank, will exchange lira notes until February 2012: [http://www.ecb.int/bc/exchange/html/index.en.html](http://www.ecb.int/bc/exchange/html/index.en.html) Seems like a lot of bother. Maybe you could just give it to an Italian? ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/39-000-lire/396583/3 "2007-03-19T18:41:48Z")
You might be able to sell them to a coin dealer. Depending on condition, I’d guess you’d get $10 to $25 for them.