When California actual property agent John Reyes went to Los Angeles to scrub out the previous dwelling of his father-in-law, he anticipated to seek out some trash.
As a substitute he discovered some money: greater than 1 million copper pennies, to be particular.
Reyes, an actual property agent in Ontario, California, discovered the huge quantity of moolah ― price a minimum of $10,000 ― final yr in a crawlspace below a house that when belonged to his father-in-law, Fritz, who’d lived there together with his brother for many years.
Reyes, his spouse, Elizabeth, and different members of the family have spent the previous few years cleansing out the house in hopes of renovating it.
However it was a frightening job for one easy motive. “They stored every thing,” Reyes instructed Los Angeles TV station KTLA.
Reyes stated the crawlspace was so tight that members of the family needed to get on their knees to achieve a number of the corners.
“We have been attempting to do an intensive job,” Reyes stated, and, in consequence, began discovering a bunch of free pennies earlier than discovering bins and financial institution luggage crammed with pennies made earlier than the U.S. switched from copper to zinc within the Nineteen Eighties.
After weighing the luggage and figuring out the approximate quantity in every bag, the household figured there have been a minimum of 1 million pennies within the crawlspace.
However the reply to that query introduced up one other query: What to do with all of the pennies?
Reyes figured they’d take the cash to a Coinstar machine, however that concept was rapidly nixed.
“We didn’t need to pay 8%, and there’s no manner we will take these all the way in which [home] to Ontario,” he stated.
They tried to change the pennies at a close-by Wells Fargo, which didn’t have sufficient house. Reyes and household then transported the pennies in two vehicles to a financial institution nearer to their dwelling solely to have that financial institution refuse to take them as properly.
However after financial institution staff steered combing by means of the pennies looking for notably uncommon cash, the household determined to place the entire copper kit-and-kaboodle on OfferUp for $25,000 ― which is admittedly greater than the face worth of the pennies.
“We need to promote them however what we all know is there’s this craze on the web of individuals on the lookout for one million greenback penny,” Reyes instructed The Sacramento Bee. “We simply need to promote them to somebody who is aware of they may promote them for greater than penny worth.”
Since OfferUp is about up as a bunch of native websites, Reyes is asking anybody else who could also be within the pennies to message him through his Instagram web page.
Nevertheless, as KTLA notes on the backside of its article: You’ll have to determine find out how to transport the pennies your self.
