The lucky family: Cleaning the house turned up a million dollar treasure!

A lucky family finds a treasure hidden in the basement of their early 20th century home.

According to KTLA, the family found copper coins worth more than one million dollars in the American city of Los Angeles.

Realtor John Reyes was helping his wife clean out her late father Fritz's home in the Inland Empire when they found a million copper pennies worth more than $1 million in a cramped basement.

The house belongs to Fritz and his brother, who are immigrants from Germany. They lived in this house for decades, until Fritz died and his brother moved to another place.

Reyes and his wife, when excavating in the back of the vault, discovered coins in loose paper rolls, which opened their appetite for further research, as they later found dozens of bank bags filled with copper coins.

"There are names of banks on the bags that I've never heard of, or they don't exist anymore," Reyes says of that historic moment for him. He pointed out that they then found dozens of cardboard boxes and a few wooden boxes, which were all filled with pennies.

Pennies were initially made of pure copper until 1943 when the US Mint switched to zinc-coated steel due to the need for copper in World War II.

Source News : : Sputnik 11-June-2023