Penny's from heaven.

Face up equals good luck!

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I pick up change every time I see it on the ground even pennies. I have a 5 gallon jar that I throw just pennies in that I've been doing for 20 years. Over half full. It helps my hoarding tendencies and doesn't take up much space.
Also cut grass for a chain of car washes and the vacuum areas always have lots of change.

I try not to make eye contact and hope it didn't see me

I used to keep all my change in a 5 gallon Sparkletts bottle. And it was near full. Until it went missing. Never again!

I spend it now as fast as it comes in.

... I think we went to High School together

I only pick them up in case I ever go to San Angeles and have to have my car smog inspected. I can pay in pennies then give a bad yelp review on how they called me a cheapskate.

Tools at the shop I used to work in always found a way to grow legs. Fake money probably would not discourage people from taking stuff but at least it leave them a little disappointed.

I only do heads up, but think I will start turning over the others for the next person. I once was shopping for a bed for my daughter and was getting no service at this store I found a 100 dollar bill. I looked around and I was the only one in the store so I grabbed it. Couldn't tell you if was up or down.

Sockets grow the most legs.

When I was in my late teens or so, I used to hang after work with a couple of coworker dudes around same age (maybe college). We weren't close friends (they were with each other), but we would party a little and walk around town checkin out college tail.

Anyway, one day we are walking down a sidewalk (about five of us); I am towards the rear of group. I watch as they each step over a 20 dollar bill on sidewalk. I noticed it, bent down to pick it up and found that it was pretty stuck down and wrinkley as though it had rained on it and already been stepped on. I instantly thought it was fake or a joke, but carefully peeled it up and....NOPE real deal! I picked it up, made and exclamation and immediately one of the dudes I was with said he just dropped it. I kinda laughed figuring he was being a smart ass; then his buddies starting chiming in claiming they saw him drop it so I need to give it to him!!

After a minute or two of realizing they were being serious, I flat out told them to get fucked! What balls! I knew it was there a long time....plus, I'm no small dude to screw with and they were.

Last time we hung out. Lol.

...double...

When I was waiting tables I used to get those fake $20 Jesus bills it's the worst tip ever

Penny from The Magicians? He’s a traveler, so I would pick him up just so he could teleport me to the PHOF at least twice a week.

Heck, I don't even have to put on my diving gear.
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Those look "dropped" to me. Go for it!

Pennies and up, including soda cans if I'm on my way to the car.
Think about your true intrinsic 24/7 per minute value. For me the 10 seconds it takes to pick up a penny is a >10% pay raise for that one minute.
What's your true per minute of life value? Take your net weekly pay, divide it by 7, divide that by 1440 (24 hours in minutes). That gives you what you're really worth per minute.

Sure, I'd pick up a penny. A dab of superglue, and stick it back to the ground..

Any idea how many steel pennies were made?
I guess I could Google it but I guess I am asking, are all steel pennies valuable now, depending on condition?

Only heads up or wheat year

They made a bunch in 1943. Some worth a little more than others. Maybe worth a couple dollars a piece.

The real valuable ones are from 1944 when they had gone back to copper, so there are very few out there. Same with the copper from 1943 as most were steel and only a few copper examples exist. Those are two of the highest priced pennies out there. Further research shows nice ones have sold for several hundred thousand at auction.

So next time you look down and see a penny on the ground that doesn't look exactly new, it might not be a bad idea to at least bend down and give it a look.

Hottest thread on Pinside! Next time someone’s rolling their eyes about a $20k Lebowski, direct them to this thread for the $100k penny.

Yes sir. Specially in front of someone. Lol.

Yes my girlfriend and I do when we’re out together or alone and share how much we find. We actually put all found change in a Hulk giant piggy bank. I also got her the penny Pandora charm so it’s been a little thing we have done over the years.

I’m impressed with the number of people that have convinced their girlfriends/wives that collecting loose change is a suitable couples’ hobby. Well played, gentlemen, well played.

My bad, Spellcheck got me

Kind of like when you do all your research for the perfect car, then smash it into a tree...

You're in the wrong thread, you need to go to "you know you're old when". Try not to get lost on your way...….sir

I use a tape measure.

We went through some change that has been sitting in our cottage for years. Found some old ones and starting looking them up to see if they where worth anything. We about shit our pants when we pulled this one up.

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I worked as a tool sales guy for Sears before.

Had a guy come in saying he ran a laundromat and was wondering if I had any sort of tool to help fish coins out from under machines. Showed him some grabber tools etc....he says NO, like a special magnet for coins or something. I chuckled ...... he didn't. ..... awkward!

Apparently, he wasn't joking and honestly thought I would have some magic magnet. Had to try SOO hard not to insult or laugh!

Best I could offer was a yard stick and some rope caulk type stuff. I suggested he try bubble gum on end on end of stick as well. No joke. Lol

As in "Goddammit, even in 1936 Canadian pennies were slipping across the border and infiltrating our grandfathers' loose change"?

Holy shit! I had to look that up! 1 of 3 known to have been made!!??

The 1936 "dot" cent would have a tiny dot under the date on the reverse side, which differentiates the three of them from the millions of other 1936 Canadian pennies.

Still a nice old piece.

http://o.canada.com/business/rare-dotted-canadian-penny-from-1936-sells-at-u-s-coin-auction-for-250000

Yep.. pick them up and when paying for things I always round up to the next dollar and get change back... put it in a container and save it up. Wife gives me hers and I put it up and after awhile .. like a couple years... it's seriously quit a bit. When I separate it I look for old coin and put it aside and roll the rest. For real have put 2k down in cash from cashed in coin on a new car before.... it adds up... but is heavy as f@#k !

We looked at that dam thing all night trying to see a dot. Lol, wife was screaming "We are building a new cottage!" The internet on our phone barely works up there so it was like dial up speed back in the day loading the pages.

That was like me last night putting on my Mr Magoo glasses and staring at those old steel pennies dreaming at least one said 1944 instead of 1943 on it.

Instead all I've got is some old tarnished metal.

You realize they really didn't have"ride supervisors. "You were a park sweeper.

How else would they ever get people to take that job if they didn't boost the title to protect egos?

Never. What am I gonna do with a penny?

I occasionally throw them out when cleaning the apartment too. I can’t be the only one.

I pick up pennies. Or I take them as change. If there is a penny tray at the cash register, change pennies go in there.
All the others go in a big cup at home. Once a year the local Cancer Service does a penny fundraiser, and I drop off the pennies there.

If I could give you
a double thumbs-up,
I sure would.
Nice post.

Seriously?!? That's worth a lot more than $0.01.

I'll bend over for a quarter or more. When I drop a penny, I pretend Not to notice. What I hate is when I drop a penny at the register and someone picks it up and gives it to me. I feel a little guilty. It really pisses me off when someone says "you dropped a penny" and expects me to pick it up. I just respond, "I know" and go about my life.

Edit: Last night I was at a 7-11 and my total was $3.01. I gave the cashier a $5 and was fumbling in my pocket for a coin when the she said don't worry about it. She then preceded to try and give me a dollar bill and 99 cents in change. Are you serious? I took a penny out of the little dish on the counter and said gimme my 2 bucks.

No pennies on the ground anymore.
Stopped circulation in 2013.
But I will pick up quarters 1's and 2's.
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No penny Canadough, but pennies are in circulation in the USA.

Gotta look at these carefully, lotta low-lifes have been plating them to look like copper.

I saw ~$1 worth of change next to a toilet in a public restroom. I did not pick it up.

Alrighty then...
There are always exceptions