Are you one of those people who rushes to grab any piece of change you see lying around? Sure, their value may be small, but they add up quickly.
What if you decided to collect all the pennies you could find in a month? How many do you think you’d have?
Now, let’s take it one step further. What if you collected pennies for an entire year? How about 45 years?
A man by the name of Otha Anders did just that.
This man collected pennies for 45 years and blew his bank tellers away when he brought them in.
Otha Anders is a teacher from the state of Louisiana.
When he began collecting coins in the late 1960s, it wasn’t to amass any type of wealth; he just liked doing it. Even when the government began a program to pay $125 for every $100 of pennies turned in, he wasn’t interested. He liked having the collection.
Collecting pennies as an excuse to say a prayer.
Anders said that he began seeing pennies as a reminder to stop and say a prayer.
“If I see a penny when I’m gassing up, on the ground, or in a store, it would be a reminder to stop right there and say a prayer,” Anders said to ABC News. “I never failed to do that. That’s why they had so much value to me.”