Mr Gan explains that he paid in cash because he had amassed a huge amount of small denomination coins and notes through the petrol station where he works.
Gan said many clients at his petrol station were the city’s bus drivers, who pay in one-yuan coins when they come to refuel their vehicles.
“The fare [that] bus companies collected are all one-yuan coins and they used that money to pay us,” Gan told the Peninsula Morning News, a state-run newspaper in the province.
The bus fare in Shenyang city, the capital of Liaoning province, costs one yuan.
"As our station is in the suburbs, there are very few banks. So we didn't deposit the coins and decided to use them to buy a car for our company," he says.
The buyer warned staff at the car dealership in advance about his unusual payment method, and the cash was neatly wrapped in small packages. But it still posed a logistical challenge - employees needed more than an hour to move all the cash into the showroom. They then had the unenviable task of gathering it all up again and taking it to the bank.
He bought a Toyota SUV for his service station to use as a company car.
http://bmwmblog.com/man-buys-new-car-pays-with-140000-in-coins/
http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/man-buys-new-car-pays-with-140000-in-coins/story-fnkgdftz-1227382638922
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-33008073
http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1816326/chinese-petrol-station-worker-buys-680000-yuan-car-massive-stash
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