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Family finds 1 million copper pennies while cleaning out Los Angeles home
(fox5sandiego.com)
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TLDR: Nobody wants them, not even the banks. Offered for sale at $25,000 (which is the supposed melt value), but no takers so far.
Exactly. Every once in a while there is a movement to eliminate the penny from circulation. One can see why.