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Valley man cashes in more than 1 million pennies that were used to build giant pyramid

From fox10phoenix.com

{video} Cory Nielsen has collected pennies for many years. "I've seen people try to do this record before and they just lost their mind and they just stopped, but I liked it. I enjoyed it. It was a stress reliever for me," he said. He not only collected the pennies, but it took him nearly three years to build this pyramid. "They're just free stand. No glue, no welding or anything like that," Nielsen said. Now that he's taken them all down, he's cashing in. "Today, I am turning in one 1,030,315 pennies," he said. Bags and bags of coins, the pennies weighed in at about 6,000 pounds. Nielsen loaded them all into ... (full story)

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