Jim Holton and North Shore Bank made the news last week when he brought in 20 years of collected coins to be exchanged at our Brookfield Square branch.

As he explains in the video above, the Wauwatosa man started saving his coffee change around the year 2000 and then made a point of picking up stray coins wherever he found them. When he learned the bank is offering free coin counting to the public to help with the nationwide coin shortage, he brought in all the coins he’d gathered over the years, in three five-gallon buckets and a variety of other jars and containers.

He left the branch with a much more portable $5,366.05 total. His visit was covered by at least five southeast Wisconsin TV stations and other news media outlets.