LYNDHURST, Ohio -- Eugene Sukie decided the time was right for him to finally return his coin collection to the economy.

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Man Cashes In Pennies

Sukie said he has 575 cigar boxes in the basement of his home. Inside those boxes are 28,000 rolls of 50 pennies to a roll. That puts his collection at 1.4 million coins.

The pennies weigh more than 3.5 tons.

He trucked his collection to a Giant Eagle supermarket in Lyndhurst's Legacy Village.

SLIDESHOW: Pennies Galore

Sukie said he has somewhere around $14,000 coming to him but the counting machine will spit out the exact amount.

The 78-year-old penny collector from Barberton is a retired glass plant worker. He started his present collection 34 years ago.

The collection is expected to set a new world record, as well as break Coinstar's existing record for the most pennies cashed-in by a customer. The previous Coinstar record, set in 2001 in Anchorage, Ala., is 792,141 pennies or $7,921.41.