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Man Saves N21 Million In COINS Just To Buy An SUV (PHOTOS)

Jun 4, 2015

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Chinese man saved £70,000 in coins to buy new car — Not an enviable task! (Picture: Rex Shutterstock)

This story leaves us wondering how many piggy banks he needed to protect all that money.

For some reason, a car buyer decided he wanted to pay for a new car with four tonnes of coins.

It took a lorry to drop off the payment of 680,000 coins, including 660,000 coins worth 1 yuan (0.1p), at a dealership in Liaoning province, east China.

It took an hour for 10 workers at the car dealership just to empty the 1,320 bundles of coins from the van, let alone count the money.

There’s now a problem with banking. The dealership either faces paying charges to put the money into a bank or it could just pay its workers using the bundles of cash. Not exactly practical.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Imaginechina/REX Shutterstock (4818981c) Chinese workers unload bundles of coins from a van outside a car dealership Buyer pays for new SUV car using 4 tonnes of coins, Shenyang city, Liaoning province, China - 02 Jun 2015 A car buyer shocked salespeople at a dealership in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang by paying for a new SUV using four tonnes of coins. Mr. Gan, a worker at a local gas station, was assigned by his company to buy the imported Toyota Land Cruiser with 680,000 yuan of cash, including 660,000 yuan of 1-yuan coins and 20,000 yuan of 1-yuan banknotes. The money was paid by local bus companies for fuel, according to Mr. Gan. Several employees of the dealership and the gas station transported the cash from the station to the car showroom by van as the coins and banknotes weighed about 4.2 tonnes. It took the workers hours to have the money unloaded from the van, weighed and counted. But to their disappointment, all the banks they called denied their request of depositing such huge amounts of coins into the account of the dealership. The mony might be finally used as salaries if there is no other way, some salespersons said. — Workers took 10 hours to empty the lorry (Picture: Rex Shutterstock)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Imaginechina/REX Shutterstock (4818981i) Bundles of coins and banknotes piled up at a car dealership Buyer pays for new SUV car using 4 tonnes of coins, Shenyang city, Liaoning province, China - 02 Jun 2015 A car buyer shocked salespeople at a dealership in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang by paying for a new SUV using four tonnes of coins. Mr. Gan, a worker at a local gas station, was assigned by his company to buy the imported Toyota Land Cruiser with 680,000 yuan of cash, including 660,000 yuan of 1-yuan coins and 20,000 yuan of 1-yuan banknotes. The money was paid by local bus companies for fuel, according to Mr. Gan. Several employees of the dealership and the gas station transported the cash from the station to the car showroom by van as the coins and banknotes weighed about 4.2 tonnes. It took the workers hours to have the money unloaded from the van, weighed and counted. But to their disappointment, all the banks they called denied their request of depositing such huge amounts of coins into the account of the dealership. The mony might be finally used as salaries if there is no other way, some salespersons said. — The coins had to be piled up in the showroom (Picture: Rex Shutterstock)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Imaginechina/REX Shutterstock (4818981g) Chinese workers unload bundles of coins from a van outside a car dealership Buyer pays for new SUV car using 4 tonnes of coins, Shenyang city, Liaoning province, China - 02 Jun 2015 A car buyer shocked salespeople at a dealership in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang by paying for a new SUV using four tonnes of coins. Mr. Gan, a worker at a local gas station, was assigned by his company to buy the imported Toyota Land Cruiser with 680,000 yuan of cash, including 660,000 yuan of 1-yuan coins and 20,000 yuan of 1-yuan banknotes. The money was paid by local bus companies for fuel, according to Mr. Gan. Several employees of the dealership and the gas station transported the cash from the station to the car showroom by van as the coins and banknotes weighed about 4.2 tonnes. It took the workers hours to have the money unloaded from the van, weighed and counted. But to their disappointment, all the banks they called denied their request of depositing such huge amounts of coins into the account of the dealership. The mony might be finally used as salaries if there is no other way, some salespersons said. — It took a while to count the coins (Picture: Rex Shutterstock)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Imaginechina/REX Shutterstock (4818981h) Chinese workers unload bundles of coins from a van outside a car dealership Buyer pays for new SUV car using 4 tonnes of coins, Shenyang city, Liaoning province, China - 02 Jun 2015 A car buyer shocked salespeople at a dealership in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang by paying for a new SUV using four tonnes of coins. Mr. Gan, a worker at a local gas station, was assigned by his company to buy the imported Toyota Land Cruiser with 680,000 yuan of cash, including 660,000 yuan of 1-yuan coins and 20,000 yuan of 1-yuan banknotes. The money was paid by local bus companies for fuel, according to Mr. Gan. Several employees of the dealership and the gas station transported the cash from the station to the car showroom by van as the coins and banknotes weighed about 4.2 tonnes. It took the workers hours to have the money unloaded from the van, weighed and counted. But to their disappointment, all the banks they called denied their request of depositing such huge amounts of coins into the account of the dealership. The mony might be finally used as salaries if there is no other way, some salespersons said. — In total there were four tonnes of coins (Picture: Rex Shutterstock)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Imaginechina/REX Shutterstock (4818981b) Chinese workers unload bundles of coins from a van outside a car dealership Buyer pays for new SUV car using 4 tonnes of coins, Shenyang city, Liaoning province, China - 02 Jun 2015 A car buyer shocked salespeople at a dealership in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang by paying for a new SUV using four tonnes of coins. Mr. Gan, a worker at a local gas station, was assigned by his company to buy the imported Toyota Land Cruiser with 680,000 yuan of cash, including 660,000 yuan of 1-yuan coins and 20,000 yuan of 1-yuan banknotes. The money was paid by local bus companies for fuel, according to Mr. Gan. Several employees of the dealership and the gas station transported the cash from the station to the car showroom by van as the coins and banknotes weighed about 4.2 tonnes. It took the workers hours to have the money unloaded from the van, weighed and counted. But to their disappointment, all the banks they called denied their request of depositing such huge amounts of coins into the account of the dealership. The mony might be finally used as salaries if there is no other way, some salespersons said. — Local banks are believed to have refused to take the cash (Picture: Rex Shutterstock)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Imaginechina/REX Shutterstock (4818981e) Chinese workers unload bundles of coins from a van outside a car dealership Buyer pays for new SUV car using 4 tonnes of coins, Shenyang city, Liaoning province, China - 02 Jun 2015 A car buyer shocked salespeople at a dealership in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang by paying for a new SUV using four tonnes of coins. Mr. Gan, a worker at a local gas station, was assigned by his company to buy the imported Toyota Land Cruiser with 680,000 yuan of cash, including 660,000 yuan of 1-yuan coins and 20,000 yuan of 1-yuan banknotes. The money was paid by local bus companies for fuel, according to Mr. Gan. Several employees of the dealership and the gas station transported the cash from the station to the car showroom by van as the coins and banknotes weighed about 4.2 tonnes. It took the workers hours to have the money unloaded from the van, weighed and counted. But to their disappointment, all the banks they called denied their request of depositing such huge amounts of coins into the account of the dealership. The mony might be finally used as salaries if there is no other way, some salespersons said. — He must have been saving for ages for that SUV (Picture: Rex Shutterstock)

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