Visiting The Bank
The staff at Rustin Origin Bank in Rustin, Louisiana, will never forget the day Otha Anders came in to make a deposit, but it wasn’t just any deposit. He was depositing his money in pennies. There are numerous pennies. Anders had so many pennies to deposit that they had to be transported in a truck, and they had to be carried into the building using a cart and a handbarrow. He even enlisted the help of five others to speed up the process.
15 Large Bottles
The coins were kept in large water bottles, as you can see in the photo. There were a total of 15 of them. Each bottle held five gallons of water and was brimmed to the brim with pennies. They appear to be on the verge of bursting! Continue reading to learn how Anders went about emptying this massive amount of pennies, as well as the astounding total that all of this shrapnel would come to after hours of counting… We were completely taken aback!