US couple struggle to bank huge haul of pennies
BBC 2023-06-10 00:07:53 • 2 mins
By Max Matza
BBC News
A couple in California are in for a penny, in for a pound after finding what they estimate to be a million copper pennies in a basement.
John Reyes and his wife discovered bags of the coins while cleaning her late father's Los Angeles home around nine months ago.
The family thought about cashing them in for their $10,000 (8,000) face value, but ultimately held back.
One local bank told Mr Reyes it had no room in the vault to take the coins.
"'Don't bring them here,'" the manager of a Well Fargo branch told him, he recalled in an interview with a local CBS News affiliate.
The discovery came as he was on his hands and knees rummaging through a crawlspace his father-in-law's home in the Pico-Union neighbourhood of LA.
