Grandfather emptied his piggy bank after 70 years (4 photos)

An elderly man had been collecting change in a large glass jar for many years. Recently, he allowed his relatives to count its contents.





A pensioner named Aman from the United States, who had been collecting coins in a giant piggy bank for 70 years, finally decided to open it. The man's grandson shared the unusual story on the popular forum Reddit.

On September 28, a relative of the pensioner published a post in which he showed a huge jar filled almost to the brim with silver and bronze coins.

"My grandpa kept his change in this big glass jar for 70 years and finally let me count it," he wrote.

Just a day later, the man's family shared another photo. It shows the huge jar empty, with the coins and bills laid out in a plastic container, ready to be counted and sorted. In an update, they wrote that the final weight of the coins alone was a whopping 152.5 pounds (about 69 kilograms).



In the comments, the retiree's relatives explained that they carefully taped the can to "contain the mess" in case it broke. They then wrapped it in a blanket and loaded it onto a hand truck.

"In the garage, we laid the can on its side, lifted the bottom with a block, and tilted it to get the coins out," the grandson wrote.

On October 4, a Reddit user shared the latest update. The 70-year-old coin can had been emptied, and the contents were sorted and counted.

The final tally was $2,052.76, and the photos showed a variety of coins, as well as other items that had found their way into the jar over the decades: paper clips, tickets, buttons, candy wrappers, and even fruit stickers. They also saved any antique, unusual, or foreign coins they found, which they added to the official total. It took them a week to sort through everything by hand.





Many Reddit users were impressed by the retiree's grandson's story.

"Awesome update. Very interesting stuff. I wonder if you found any old coins," "This jar of coins keeps me up at night," "It's like having thousands of lottery tickets to cross off," they wrote.