12/09/2019
The Javanese and Indonesian term cèlèngan (literally "likeness of a wild boar", but used to mean both "savings" and "piggy bank")
is also used in the context of domestic banks. The etymology of the word is obscure, but evident in a Majapahit piggy bank from the 15th century.
Several boar-shaped piggy banks have been discovered at the large archaeological site surrounding Trowulan,
a village in the Indonesian province of East Java and possible site of the capital of the ancient Majapahit Empire.
These are probably the source of the Javanese-Indonesian word referring to savings or money containers.