Do you bend over to pick up pennies??
CoinKing1969
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I found this blog on MSN and thought it was interesting. Do you pick up pennies?
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Heads up pick it up
Heads down leave it down
not for the hunt mind you, but the fact that my grandmother had to stand in bread lines as a child...
free money is just that, FREE MONEY.
i know it doesn't mean alot, but as a collector who fell in love with coins because of the history, i can not leave them on the ground.
i can't...
Mark
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<< <i>I picked up a penny on the ground in fall '06, turned out to be a 1972 Type 1 DDO. >>
Was that right done at the end of your block?
I think that was mine.
I think.
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso
<< <i>I picked up a penny on the ground in fall '06, turned out to be a 1972 Type 1 DDO. >>
no pun intended.
i've kept track of all the change i found around the neighborhood this past year
just for the fun of it
total - 22.82
627-pennies 38-nickels 79-dimes 25-quarters 1-half
Last week I found two hundred yen coins, a fity yen and a 500 yen. That's roughly $6.
Not a bad payday for bending over.
John
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I like the $5 coins in Japan. I also like that the paper money starts at $10.
<< <i>You guys should live in Japan. When you pick up a coin here it's usually of a decent denomination.
Last week I found two hundred yen coins, a fity yen and a 500 yen. That's roughly $6.
Not a bad payday for bending over.
John >>
Planning a trip mid next year, can't wait to bend over. lol
-PAUL
<< <i>i pick up all pennies.
not for the hunt mind you, but the fact that my grandmother had to stand in bread lines as a child... >>
My grandmother (dad's mom) worked as a coffee shop waitress during the Depression. Usually the only food they had to eat was what she brought home after the restaurant closed for the night (the stuff that would otherwise have gone in the trash). To this day my dad will not eat chicken & dumplings.
Yes, I usually pick up pennies.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
<< <i>Last week I found two hundred yen coins, a fity yen and a 500 yen. That's roughly $6.
Not a bad payday for bending over. >>
You could get even more if, well, you know........
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
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<< <i>Last week I found two hundred yen coins, a fity yen and a 500 yen. That's roughly $6.
Not a bad payday for bending over. >>
You could get even more if, well, you know........ >>
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
When I wrote the post I threw a sentence in that said "Anyway, I do it at work for free" and I took it out because I have the worlds coolest job and I most certainly don't any bending over.
John
Never view my other linked pages. They aren't coin related.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
I read somewhere that Bil Gates, wouldn't bend over to pickup 10,000 dollars.
Which makes sense, his net worth is 50 billion, why bother.
<< <i>I don't bend over to pick up pennies. I stoop down. One must lift with the knees. >>
myCCset
I got two MS 66 and one MS 67 1995 D Lincoln cents graded at PCGS using this method.
I was sure they were MS68s
Yes I Pick them up.
Steve
this is what I found in 2005...................$8.46
this is what I found in 2006 can't tell the amount yet, I'm having a "guess how much money I found in 2006" give-a-way shortly.
Herb
Dan
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Not a bad payday for bending over.
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I get more at work.
I recently found an indian head cent in a parking lot. One side was scraped up a bit from traffic, the other side was in nice shape.
Never know what you'll find...
"Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."
~Wayne
Unfortunately the owner was looking around asking if anyone had "found anything". I ended up giving her the money after she described it and she gave me 20 dollars, which I thought was a pretty fair reward. How the heck did she remember the numbers on the front of the bill though?
I have also found a 50 dollar bill, more than one 20 and multiple 5s and 1s in various places.
Around August the large jar in her locker would find its way home. I was the first to search it and add to my collection. I dare say, many of the cents in those three - four old blue whitman albums I still have hold the fruit of my mothers labor and the beginning to my coin collecting. After searching, I was tasked to roll the coins, and off we would walk to the bank (no car in the family) each of us carrying a brown paper bag with the sum total of around $75-$100 average per year. Once cashed, we headed to the store to buy me school cloths and a new pair of shoes. Next was a bit of shopping for my mother for whatever she wanted to buy with her "bonus". It was then lunch, and grocery shopping and we would walk the mile + back to our home, both feeling wonderful.
So to answer your question, yes, I pick up every coin I see, and now you can understand why.
WS
Leo
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<< <i>Let me share a personal story. When growing up I was the last of five siblings at home with my mother who raised all of us on her own due to a medical condition that institutionalized my father. To say the least, every cent counted. My mother was a custodian at a high school. She picked up every dang coin she found. These were found in the halls when she swept, on the cafeteria tables left behind everyday and inside lockers and desk at the end of the school year. (She washed each locker and desk during the summer for the start of the next school year)
Around August the large jar in her locker would find its way home. I was the first to search it and add to my collection. I dare say, many of the cents in those three - four old blue whitman albums I still have hold the fruit of my mothers labor and the beginning to my coin collecting. After searching, I was tasked to roll the coins, and off we would walk to the bank (no car in the family) each of us carrying a brown paper bag with the sum total of around $75-$100 average per year. Once cashed, we headed to the store to buy me school cloths and a new pair of shoes. Next was a bit of shopping for my mother for whatever she wanted to buy with her "bonus". It was then lunch, and grocery shopping and we would walk the mile + back to our home, both feeling wonderful.
So to answer your question, yes, I pick up every coin I see, and now you can understand why.
WS >>
Great read WS, thank you for sharing. You're Mom sounds like an amazing person with a great heart and common sense.
Rob
"Those guys weren't Fathers they were...Mothers."
<< <i>Heads up pick it up
Heads down leave it down
ditto
It's funny though, I don't see kids doing this. Money must come too easy for them.
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K
My late grandmother wrote an article about what a nickel used to buy when she was a kid (a huge, whole dill pickle for one thing, entrance to a movie for another). She marveled that as she walked with a young boy he didn't feel it worthwhile to pick up a nickel they saw on the ground.