A Ferrari 458 Italia is the kind of car most people associate with private jets, million-dollar houses and enormous bank accounts.

So imagine walking into a Ferrari dealership and trying to buy one with bags of coins.

That is reportedly what happened in China in 2015, when a businessman connected to a stone company in Fujian province used a huge quantity of small-denomination coins to pay for the luxury sports car.

According to reports at the time, the businessman had accumulated the coins through his company’s everyday business operations. Rather than exchanging them for larger denominations, he reportedly decided to use them directly for the purchase.

That created an extraordinary problem for the dealership.

Someone had to count them.

Employees reportedly spent hours sorting and counting the mountain of coins, turning what should have been a straightforward luxury-car transaction into something resembling a bank’s cash-processing operation.

The story became popular online because of the hilarious contrast: a machine capable of reaching roughly 340 km/h was being purchased with money that normally disappears into vending machines and cash registers.