After months of struggling to find a bank that would take that many pennies, one of the family members listed the coins on OfferUp, a popular resale app and website, asking for $25,000. Here's more.
That's the question facing John Reyes and his wife after a discovery they made in her father's former home in Los Angeles.in the basement while the family was cleaning out the home in Los Angeles' Pico-Union neighborhood, according to KTLA.
Reyes and his wife, Elizabeth, along with her sister, her cousin and their spouses, have been cleaning out the home with plans to renovate it. Elizabeth's father, Fritz, and his brother, both German immigrants, lived in the house for decades until Fritz died and his brother moved away. “They kept everything,” Reyes told KTLA, adding that it’s taken several years with their busy schedules to get the place clean and ready for renovations.
They first spotted some loose pennies, which led to boxes, which eventually led to the discovery of dozens of bank bags filled with the coins.
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