What you're saying doesn't make sense. If prices had actually doubled there would have been a big spike in inflation in Italy around the time of adoption of the

What you're saying doesn't make sense. If prices had actually doubled there would have been a big spike in inflation in Italy around the time of adoption of the Euro, which there wasn't: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/ITA/italy/inflation-rate-cpi https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/ITA/italy/inflation-ra... This is just an urban myth.