Banks refuse to change temple's coins into notes
Updated: 2006-07-31 08:53
Monks from a temple in Yangzhou of Jiangsu Province have been running short
of money although several million coins have piled up mountain-high in the
temple's storehouse.
Coins with a face value of 2 fen (0.02 US cents) lie piled up 2 metres high
and 4 metres long. The 4 million coins are valued at 80,000 yuan (US$9,864).
The monks visited many local banks and asked to change them into big
denomination bank notes. After two months, one bank agreed to help out by
accepting coins worth 10,000-yuan (US$1,233).
Beijing Evening News
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