- Long ago, in German speaking countries, the piggy bank was used as a reward; craftsmen gave their apprentices piggy banks to reward them for years of learning their respective profession.
- In Holland, children saved money given to them in a pig-shaped earthenware box which was not opened until Christmas. Known as the Feast Pig, it was the "ancestor" of our modern day piggy bank. When the child opened it they were rewarded with an assortment of "wealth" and "riches" that had been saved over the entire year.
- The oldest recorded piggy bank in the shape of a pig is claimed to be 1500 years old from Indonesia. If this is so, it precedes the "pygg theory" by around 1000 years!
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