Man collects pennies for 45 yrs leaving bank tellers at a loss for words when he arrives to cash in

We’ve all collected something at one point or another in our lives.

If you collected all the pennies you could find for an entire month, how many do you think you’d have?

What about if you collected pennies for an entire year?

Now, consider how much money you would have if you collected pennies for 45 years.

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 of paying $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 would 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.”

Watch Otha Anders’ discuss his penny collection in the video below.

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