Did anyone else see this bbc news article? California family finds $10 thousand dollars worth of pre 1943 wheat cents in their basement! Interesting. US couple struggle to bank huge haul of pennies - BBC News for your reading pleasure
Interesting. Another site says "The family members confirmed the pennies were copper and not zinc, which the United States switched to in 1982." and included this: which shows a 78 penny! See: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/f...ile-cleaning-out-los-angeles-home/ar-AA1ckNbJ
That BBC article really stretches the truth. "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." - Yeah, that was for one year. There is absolutely no evidence that all, or any, of the coins pre-date 1943. Like what @derkerlegand quoted above, "When the nation switched from copper to zinc to press its pennies, Fritz saw an opportunity to help build generational wealth for his family." https://www.wfla.com/news/national/...-pennies-while-cleaning-out-los-angeles-home/ - which I believe is the original news article. The implication from that sentence is that the guy started piling up copper cents after 1982. I bet there aren't many wheat cents in there. "You see all these stories of people finding pennies worth $2 million" - what on earth? I can't think of any 1c coins selling for $2 million, let alone multiple stories. Mr. Reyes needs a dose of reality.
It's easy, really. Just find 200 piles of cent bags as large as the one pictured. Always be careful to check in any abandoned warehouses or cave systems you happen to buy.
I would be sitting in a corner looking through them. Never know what you could find in a hoard of that many cents, wow.
In a hoard that size, at the very least, I'd better find a pair of prescription eyeglasses and a bottle of Vizine . . .
Interesting read, there are lots of hoarders out there that save interesting things like this put way back in a attic crawl space or in a basement only to be discovered after the person has died.
Yep. A friend brought seven or eight metal cans of coins for me to look through. Her father had stashed them in the walls of his house. They weren't able to finish looking for more before the place was sold. There were a dozen or more rolls of 40% Kennedy halves, but mostly LMCs and Jefferson nickels that looked to have been put back in the 60s and 70s.
