Family sells 1 million pennies found while cleaning home

Friday, June 23, 2023
LOS ANGELES -- A family's lucky find is bringing them a nice payday.

Earlier this month, John Reyes told our sister station, ABC7 Eyewitness News in Los Angeles, he and his wife found 1 million pennies while cleaning her father's home.
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Reyes now says the pennies have been sold. No details of the transaction have been shared, including how much his family was paid for the cache.

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We do know the coins were originally listed on OfferUp for $25,000, more than double its $10,000 value.
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The discovery was made last year when the couple was cleaning out a crawl space in the basement and began finding loose pennies on the ground.

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