A basket containing zinc blanks waiting to be turned into pennies at the US Mint. David Zalubowski/AP
A basket containing zinc blanks waiting to be turned into pennies at the US Mint. David Zalubowski/AP© David Zalubowski/AP
  • A family found 800,000 pennies in the basement of a deceased relative.
  • Some rare pennies have sold for millions of dollars, and they hoped to find one in the huge pile.
  • But they gave up after an hour and listed the whole lot for $25,000, multiple outlets reported.

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Take a look inside Taylor Swift's childhood home in Pennsylvania, a five-bedroom house worth $800,000

  • Taylor Swift's childhood home in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, sold last year for $800,000.
  • She lived in the Georgian Colonial-style home before moving to Nashville to pursue her music career.
  • Her childhood in Pennsylvania inspired her songs "Seven" and "The Best Day."

Before Taylor Swift and her family moved to Tennessee to pursue her music career, she spent her childhood in Pennsylvania.

During her early childhood, Swift grew up on Pine Ridge Farm, an 11-acre Christmas tree farm in Reading, Pennsylvania. Quite a few of her songs talk about her childhood growing up there, including "Christmas Tree Farm" and "Seven," which appeared on her Grammy award-winning album "Folklore."

However, the Swifts later moved from the farm to a 3,560-square-foot house in Pennsylvania, located at 78 Grandview Boulevard in Wyomissing. Swift lived in the house until 2004, at which point she and her family relocated to the Nashville area so a high school-aged Taylor could begin pursuing her music career.

Take a look inside the pop star's childhood home, which sold in 2022 for $800,000.

After stumbling across a hoard of 800,000 pennies in the basement of an old family home, a couple set out to find a million-dollar penny — but gave up after an hour and listed the whole lot for $25,000, news outlets reported.

The needle-in-a-haystack search began when John Reyes and his wife were clearing out her old family home in Los Angeles, KTLA reported.

In a basement crawl space, they found an unusual trove that belonged to Reyes' father-in-law before his death: a stash of roughly 800,000 copper pennies.

The US reduced the copper content in its pennies in the 1980s, prompting Reyes' father-in-law to save the older coins, with the belief that they would appreciate in value, The Washington Post reported.

The stash was so vast that it took a whole day to remove it from the basement, the couple told KTLA. 

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Moving the haul to a second location also turned their pickup trucks into lowriders, Reyes told The Washington Post.

After making the discovery, Reyes contacted his nearest Wells Fargo Bank branch to see whether it would take the pennies, but the manager said there wasn't enough room in the vault.

Hearing of the size of the hoard, she said they should pore over the coins to see whether there was a treasure in their midst that collectors might pay top dollar for.

"You probably have a million-dollar penny in there," she told him, according to The Washington Post.

Indeed, some mint-condition Lincoln pennies from 1971 can be worth up to $1,000, while much-older rare pennies have gone for up to $1.7 million. 

Doing some basic research, Reyes set out to find such a treasure, The Washington Post reported.

But the family gave up after an hour of looking through roughly 300 pennies, the paper said. 

"We had no clue what we were looking for," Reyes said.

They're now pinning their hopes on a $25,000 sale of the whole lot, KTLA said, which is still roughly three times the coins' face value.

Reyes said he's talking to "a really serious buyer" who'd then have the tantalizing possibility of finding a treasure or two among the 800,000 coins.