salem when a customer walked into his showroom to buy a 26 lakh worth bike manager mahvikranth little knew that he and his colleagues would have to spend 10 hours counting the cash v boopathi the customer had brought it in onerupee coinsboobathi scrimped and scraped 26 lakh all in onerupee coins for more than three years to make his dream of buying a highend motorbike come truea resident of gandhi maidan at ammapet in the city boobathis dream came true when a bajaj showroom in the city agreed to sell him a dominar 400 cc bike in exchange for his onerupee coins rs 26 lakh in totalboobathi and his friends brought the coins packed in gunny bags in a minivan to the showroom on saturday afternoon a bca graduate boopathi works as a computer operator in a private company he is also a youtuber who has posted many videos for the past four yearswe took nearly 10 hours to count the coins manager of the bharat agency bajaj showroom mahavikranth told toiwhen boobathi inquired about the cost of the bike three years ago it was rs 2 lakhi didnt have so much money at the time boobathi told toi i decided to save money from the revenue earned from the youtube channel i recently inquired about the cost of the bike and learned that it was 26 lakh on road now and i had the amount this time 29yearold boobathi saidfrom the beginning he has been converting his savings into re 1 coins i converted currency notes into onerupee coins in temples hotels and even in tea shops he saidwhen boobathi approached the bajaj showroom mahavikranth was a little reluctant to accept the payment in onerupee coinsthe banks would charge rs 140 as commission for counting one lakh rupees that too in rs 2000 denomination how will they accept it when we give them 26 lakh in onerupee coins mahavikranth asked i finally accepted considering boobathis dream of buying a highend bike he addedboobathi his four friends and five staff of the showroom counted the coinsit was a different experience for us at the showroom the manager said boobathi finally got his bike delivered around 9pm on saturday