A Cedar Rapids man tried to pay his court Friday morning, but he didn't use cash or a check or credit card.

Brent Busch tried to used 45,500 pennies to pay a $455 fine for trespassing on railroad tracks in Cedar Rapids. That's on top of the $45 he spent on the buckets and hand cart to carry that many pennies to the Linn County Courthouse.

Busch said he was trying to make a statement, but the clerk of the court refused to take the pennies.

"She looked at me at my kinda funny and she said, 'what's this.' And I said this is $455.

A long-standing courthouse policy only lets people pay up to $5 a day in coins, meaning he would have to come back for 90 days. The U.S. Treasury states that's allowed.

According to the

, there is "no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise."

The court told KCRG-TV9 this isn't the first time this has happened. The court said it doesn't have the time or manpower to count all the pennies, and there is a cost associated with counting all of the coins.