Reyes said the value of the coins is in their "uniqueness," but noted he has heard stories of people finding pennies worth millions of dollars.įollowing the lack of success exchanging the coins at banks, the family has listed the coins on OfferUp, a popular resale app and website. The family was urged to go through the bags and search for rarities, however. Much to their disappointment, after moving the coins to their home in Ontario, California, their local bank refused to take the pennies. It took a whole day just to get them out of the crawlspace," Reyes said. "Literally bag-by-bag, we had to take them out of the basement, up the stairs, and into the trucks, it took hours. Dozens of bags of human body parts found in ravine.Contractor makes creepy discovery while retiling old roof in 1900s house.Mystery as man stumbles upon casket on the curb in California.Reyes remarked that one Wells Fargo branch said it was simply too many coins for the bank to handle.Ĭonsidering the possibility of taking the coins to their local bank in San Bernardino County, the family began getting them into a vehicle. He noted that the family decided to check with some of the banks in Los Angeles to see if any were interested.
"We've got to take these to Coinstar," Reyes initially thought before changing his mind. "Some of the banks don't even exist anymore," Reyes said reflecting on all the financial paper rolls that had survived alongside the discovery of the coins. The discovery was made last year, but the family now faces confusion as to what to do next about the coins. Searching through the bags, the family identified the coins as being copper, not zinc, which the U.S. Initially, the family started finding loose pennies, then crates and boxes before eventually finding dozens of bank bags filled with old coins.
He said that the family came across items of various levels of importance and the clearing out of the home has taken several years. A family has found an estimated 1 million coins while searching their historic family home.
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