John Reyes was cleaning out his late father-in-law’s home when he made a surprising discovery: an estimated 1,000,000 pennies stashed in bags, boxes and crates inside a crawl space. NBC News’ Miguel Almaguer shares this story.
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Now that's a huge treasure trove! 💰🏴☠️🪙
$25,000 is more than fair. A copper penny is worth 2.386 cents in scrap metal alone, which means there's approximately $24,000 in scrap metal alone, not figuring in the collectibility when graded. Depending on year, condition and other rarity factors, this is likely worth much more than that.
A penny save is a penny earned.
One hundred million pennies saved is just nuts.
The collection wasn't listed in his will?
My Grammy always said pennies make dollars
Worth more then 10 grand if they’re copper penny’s
Hmm yup! I bet most of those have printing errors. There’s BIG money in all those bags and boxes, and no, I’m not talking about $10K. There could be even millions worth in valuable collectible pennies. Now, imagine sitting down inspecting 1M of pennies, not an easy task but totally worth the time.
One bag at a time, going to take lots of time to go through all of them. But I bet there is some golden oldies hiding in them ! I once filled a five gallon water jug with just pennies, hundred and sixty dollars worth !
And most aren't worth anything
Banks are telling people that they cannot hold their coins in the bank vault. Close your account and go to a different bank.
Might be a single penny in there worth a million if graded lol
Now divide this by 1000 to get ur money😢
No! Go to a reputable numismatist and get a probable bottom value and then auction the hoard. You are most likely sitting on a fortune many times $25,000.00.
Looks like some corruption unprocessed
I would go through it all myself
Richie rich 🤑
By face value it is alot "
In pounds what does the copper volume equate to ?
It's unlikely tjat there's any super valuable ones.
I savednover thirty thousand of them for 52 years and there's no really special ones.
Only interesting one i found was a Kennedy penny which I'd never seen before. Worth like a dollar or two.
I've been saving and rolling pre-1982 pennies for 52 years. Every single one was change from purchases by me or my parents and grandparents.
I have over thirty thousand of them now. The weight is tremendous! Packed tightly and efficiently, they fill two 50-cal ammo boxes.
Where is the offerup link to his listing…
Worth even more than a million.
well if they are indeed true copper pennies then indeed they are worth more than a penny. i dont even think todays pennies have any copper in them.
I’ll buy them right now for that price. I know exactly what’s in there and it’s a lot of money
Penny for your thoughts
Copper pennies??
They need to be REALLY OLD.
Because they been ZINC for decades..
This lot should be auctioned off. It could possibly get much better than 25,000$. Or maybe sell the whole thing by weight, for the metal. Excpt for the numismatically "rare" items. Those would be sold individually. It's a lot of work, tho.
Aaaa what happenes if you keep them ! Dang homie be my friend!!! Loan me a 100 dollars bro !!!
In 35 years , son opens attic and finds millions in dimes
Nah papa was saving them up so he can mess with the cashier a the local grocery store. 😂
Isn’t only the 1909 vdb the only one worth anything if there all Lincoln Pennie’s. Unless there’s some double die rare coins he doesn’t have 25,000 in coins. 10,000
I'll bet that there are several pennies worth thousands of dollars in there and many worth hundreds. Wishing I had 25 I I'd buy them
Considering it cost 3 pennies to make 1 penny. It is worth more.
You get a half cent for your pay
There could possibly be just one penny worth that $25k
My uncle left ne a huge coin collection of rare coins that no one even knew he had. I still haven’t let anyone know about it as well. He also left me a sports card collection.
I used to live in a place where the path might as well be made out of pennies I pocked a tonne and bought the worst icecream known earth for a hundred of them.
Aren't there some coin machines that cash out coins
Is that like $10,000 in pennies.
10k
I hate people that don't respect there family members and only want a quick dollar. 😊
$10,000 is a good legacy.