When life gives you a million pennies, you sell them. 💰
“These have literally been untouched for decades, and I think that’s the super unique part about it,” Reyes said.
The family believes their father wanted to sell the coins, thinking that the metal would be worth a lot of money. This isn’t completely unfounded, as a 1943 penny sold for $1.7 million back in 2010, KTLA reported. Other rare coins have been sold for thousands of dollars. Reyes told“I showed her a photo and she was like, ‘I’ve been working with Wells Fargo forever and I’ve never seen anything like this. You can’t cash these in. There’s a chance you may have valuable pennies,’” he told the paper.
However, the family decided they won’t be doing the laborious task of going through all the coins trying to find a high-priced needle in a haystack. Instead, they have listed the collection of crates, boxes, and sacks of coins on the“We started going through the arduous process of looking at the pennies and that quickly turned into, ‘We don’t know what we are doing.’ And then we decided to pop open a couple of beers and have those instead,” Reyes said.
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