Pocket Money or Little Things Can also Add up to a Lot

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A couple of months ago a German truck driver bequeathed several decades' worth of pennies to his family. Indeed pennies, so that the bank was forced to spend half a year counting by hands bags of unsorted coins. In over 30 years of travels he had collected roughly 1.2 million Deutschmark coins and packed into hundreds of freezer bags. Those coins were used until the introduction of the euro in 2002. Still today Germans can exchange D-marks for euros at local branches of the German Central Bank.
The coins totaled around €8,000 ($9,400), an unexpected inheritance for the family of the deceased man.
By the way many Germans are unhappy with how the common European currency has worked out and would gladly go back to the good old deutschmark.
Germans still hold deutschmarks. The Bundesbank says the combined stash of notes and coins is worth 6.6 billion euros, years after Europe adopted the euro as cash.