The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 41, October 14, 2007, Article 25

ARIZONA BANK GIVES AWAY GOLD MEDALLIONS

An Arizona publication reported this week on a local bank 
which has been giving away gold to new customers.

"Early in 2007, the bank gave away 3-gram (roughly 1/10-ounce) 
gold coins picturing a pig to customers who made sufficiently 
high deposits or opened Better Banking checking accounts. Now, 
through Oct. 31, Chase is offering two sizes of a smiling-pig 
collectible gold medallion.

"As with the earlier coin giveaway, the medallions are 
available only at one Valley Chase branch, at 74th Street 
and McDowell Road in Scottsdale. 

"The medallions are popular among many Asians in the Valley 
who use them to mark the Chinese autumn-moon festival, said 
John Wing, a personal banker. The holiday is a family-themed 
occasion when people bake cakes shaped like moons, said Wing, 
a 27-year Valley banker who was born in Iowa of Chinese 
parents."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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