A million pennies, chances are that some of them are worth a lot more than their face value.
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 in his father-in-law's home in the Pico-Union neighbourhood of LA. At first, he said, he found loads of loose pennies that had rolled away after the paper rolls holding them in bundles disintegrated. They later found bank bags containing heavy loads full of pennies.
"Some of the banks don't even exist anymore," Mr Reyes said. "Literally bag-by-bag, we had to take them out of the basement, up the stairs, and into the trucks," Mr Reyes continued, adding that it took an entire day to remove them from the house. The home was built in the early 1900s and the family believes it may have been a bed and breakfast at one point.
The coins, which are made from pure copper, pre-date 1943, when the US began using other metals to make the one cent coin due to World War Two shortages. Pennies are now made primarily from zinc.
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