Man buys $100K car with coins

We've all got an uncle or a friend who claims to have bought a car with cash, astonishing the new car salesman, but this Chinese bloke takes the cake.

According to the Liaoshen Evening News publication, a rail company worker from Shenyang in China's northeast carted more than four tonnes of coins, worth more than $100,000 (660,000 yuan) into a car dealership to not only pay for a car, but haggle on the price of the vehicle.

The story goes that the petrol station employee, known simply as Mr Gan, receives the legal tender from bus and truck drivers filling up on fuel. He collected the coins over three months and it allegedly took 10 employees more than an hour to transport the coins to the seller.

"We have been receiving the coins for nearly three months," Mr Gan told the Liaoshen Evening News. "As our [petrol] station is in the suburb, there are very few banks. Thus, we did not deposit and decided to use them to buy a car for our company."

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