The sensation, with the transition from the Lira to the Euro, of having been robbed was immediate. The traders (those who have been crying about the crisis for a few years) they immediately took advantage of this to double the prices. With the approval of the State, which, as well as not forcing them to display the double Lira-Euro price for at least a couple of years, it doubled its bills and rates itself. Even inserting paper coins would have been enough 1 e 2 euro, to give more weight to money and greater awareness for consumers when spending it.

Come? Through the Save Italy rule (law 201/2011 art. 26), which he anticipated to 6 December 2011 the deadline for converting old liras into euros. A full three months in advance, given that the law of 2002 (introduced to manage the introduction of the euro) instead he stared at the 28 February 2012 the end of the right of exchange.
An advance that benefited the State between 1,2 e 1,6 billions of euros that, instead of ending up in the pockets of Italians in possession of the lire, were paid by Bank of Italy in three installments into state coffers to contribute to the reduction of public debt. That public debt that has been eating away at us for decades and that no government has been able to reduce.

THE JUDGMENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT- Fortunately, The Constitutional Court has once again taken care of repairing the atrocities of our rulers. Which rejected the rule with this reason: ”the fact that at the time of entry into force of the Save Italy decree they had already passed 9 years and 9 months from the cessation of the legal tender status of the lira is not suitable to justify the sacrifice of the position of those who, trusting in the validity of the deadline originally set by law, they had not yet exercised the right of conversion".
WE STILL NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW AND WHEN THE REMAINING LIRA WILL BE CHANGEABLE – Now, however, we need to understand when and how we will be able to benefit from the three months stolen from Italians to change their lire. At the moment all options are open: from reopening a window, to the limitation of the exchange only for those who can demonstrate that they have tried to exchange the titles during the period in which this was still permitted by the initial rules.
The answer is found, Therefore, in a mix of problems ranging from the usual bureaucratic delay to the impact on public finances with the lack of cash to finance this restitution.
Moreover, the fact that the blanket is too short is evident by doing the math: In the 2012 Bank of Italy explained that the banknotes not yet returned were missing 196 millions of thousand-lire pieces, 12 million of 100 thousand lire, 300thousand from 500 thousand lire, 40,6 millions of ten thousand lire, 30,9 million from five thousand and 21,6 million for the two thousand cut.
There is, In the end, another point to clarify: when to start the three months made available by the Council to go to the bank branches to change the lira? If it were confirmed that the countdown starts from the day the sentence is published, Thursday 5 November 2015, the State's chances of keeping the treasure would increase dramatically.
News that will make the Euro even more difficult in the eyes of Italians, a rip-off imposed on us from above.
source – https://www.jedanews.it/blog/passaggio-lira-euro-rapina/