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If you believe an old coconut holes could be worth millions of dollars? In Beji Timur, Kecamatan Beji, Depok, West Java, a citizen called Bayu (27) to appreciate an old coconut pierced his worth Rp. 3.5 million. Maybe we'll wonder what the old coconut extra holes Bayu's this?

Indeed at first glance the old coconut's Bayu hole is no different from the tens or hundreds of old coconuts can we meet and we pick up anywhere. But for Bayu, his coconut is very special.

Holes in the old coconut is created by natural processes, coconuts pierced by a wild squirrel who ate the coconut meat.

Uniquely, the old coconut's Bayu holes are still hanging on tightly to a stem of the coconut fruit. Not only that, the hole in the coconut is very neat. Another thing that makes interesting, to be able to have an oil hole, the Bayu have to wait two months.

Every day for two months, Bayu the time to monitor the formation process of the old coconut.

"I know perfectly well how old coconut hole is created, because of the coconut is still green and the squirrel to vent and dried coconut and then fell himself. I continued to watch," he adds while talking to AFP on Wednesday (3/2/2010) .

Bayu plans to sell the old coconut's because you never know someone was interested in coconut is a natural artistic merit. For Bayu, the price of USD 3.5 million dibanderol for old coconut very reasonable because of the uniqueness compared to other coconut in general.

Until now, Bayu still displaying the old coconut holes in the walls of his house. Could you be lucky to have such a natural art?: