The buyer paid a deposit of 20,000 yuan. This is only part of the car's cost — the remaining 31,800 yuan was to be paid within three days.
Before finalizing the deal, the client told the manager that he planned to pay in "small change." The manager agreed, not suspecting that it wasn't about small denomination bills, but actual coins.
The money was brought in four bags — these were coins of 0.1, 0.5, and 1 yuan. All available staff at the dealership had to count them, which took half a day.
Buying a car with loose change is not uncommon in China. A year earlier, a resident of Liaocheng also paid for a car with one-yuan coins, the total weight of which reached almost 2.5 tons. And in 2010, another Chinese man paid 700 kilograms of coins for a car.
In some ways, the Chinese can be envied: they can save small change without fearing that in a year or two it will depreciate...
