http://www.aol.com/article/2015/10/30/man-makes-thousands-of-bucks-after-saving-pennies-for-decades/21256408/?icid=maing-grid7|htmlws-main-bb|dl9|sec3_lnk3&pLid=-892101301 Hoped he searched them first!!
He didn't make thousands of bucks. He had thousands of bucks in one form of currency (which is hard to use), and converted that into thousands of bucks in an easier to use form. I'm really not sure why this story is getting so much press - that is a very small hoard of worthless cents, comparatively. Dude saved pennies for 50 years and that's all he had to show for it.
Article states, quote "it took 5 hours to count out more than half a million pennies — which got him about $5,000." closed quote - that should be more than $5,000 dollars then, they cheated the guy!