A man surnamed Zhang in Muyang county of east China’s
city of Suqian, Jiangsu province took a bag of damaged, rotten bills
worth 100,000 yuan (15,700 U.S. dollars) to a local bank for possible
replacement. According to Zhang, for reasons unknown, his mother buried
the money under their kitchen floor after wrapping it in a plastic bag
and sealing it in an iron box over four years ago.
This summer when her son Zhang was preparing to get
married, she recalled the stashed cash and requested her family dig the
money out, only to find a heap of severely mutilated notes. According to
him, “My parents were frozen at the site. It was their life savings
over years of hard work in the cities. They just can’t accept the loss.”
Managers at the bank were surprised to find the notes
reduced to a load of rotten, clamped-together lumps. A mutilated
currency expert in the central bank’s local branch examined the notes
and said that he bills can hardly get redeemed. However, he claimed he
would try to seek better solutions, saying “After all, it’s a lot of
money, and we hope to help the Zhangs minimize their loss.”
Source: Linda Ikeji’s blog
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