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WATCH: This driver saved up R1-million in coins to buy a BMW - dealer spends 10 hours counting a bakkie-load of spare change!

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<i>Image: Radio 2000/Twitter</i>
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A BMW dealership in China was in for a shock when a customer attempted to purchase a car with a bakkie filled with coins.

According to Oddity Central, the man, whose identity has not been revealed, used to work as a bus driver and collected the coins for years, eventually saving up enough to purchase his dream BMW.

10 hours of counting

Wonderful Engineering  reports that after seeing the truck-load of coins totalling the equivalent of R1-million ($70 000), the dealership asked a bank for assistance and they sent a total of 11 employees with coin-sorting machines.

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In total it took the employees a total of 10 hours to count the 150 000 coins which weighed more than 900kg. It's unclear which model the customer chose but it goes to show that putting away a little extra each month could pay off in the end.

bakkie full of coins

                                                                         Image: YouTube

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