Woman buys Volkswagen Passat with 130,000 yuan in spare change
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Earlier this month, a woman agreed to purchase a new Volkswagen Passat from a dealership in the Hebei city of Cangzhou for 190,000 yuan ($27,500). To pay this amount, she began hauling in heavy bags filled with coins — 66 bags in total.
Over the next three days, a team of 17 workers counted up all the change — 10,000 yuan on the first day, 50,000 yuan the next, and the remainder on the third, adding up to a grand total of around 130,000 yuan ($18,800) in coins. The woman then paid the last 60,000 yuan via online bank transfer.
Footage shared online shows employees painstakingly counting up the coins, which included denomination as low as 1 jiao (equal to a little more than a penny). “It was quite tiring but fun,” remarked one worker about the experience while showing off his hands which had been stained black by all the coinage.
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It turns out that this woman had come into this fortune of sorts as the owner of a small restaurant. She had been saving up the change at her home for a decade, deciding that it would be too much trouble to deposit all those coins in a bank.
While 130,000 yuan in coins may be an impressive amount, it’s not the record. Back in 2015, a Shenyang gas station owner purchased a car with 660,000 yuan ($95,000) in spare change.
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