Would You Bend Down to Pick Up a Penny - Page 4

Originally Posted by unknownk

I don't, not worth the effort. if I see a penny and it looks old (Wheet penny or earlier) then I will take it mostly because I used to collect coins as a kid. When I get change I dump pennies into a large glass jar and the silver coins into a different one where they eventually get rolled up and taken to the bank. Rolling up $20 in pennies takes a while and is bulky to carry around.



How often do you spot a penny on the ground anyway? if you found a penny every day for a year you have barely enough for a crappy happy meal at McDonalds (once you roll them and take them to the bank because NOBODY is going to count 365 loose pennies at a store).

Have you ever worked in retail? It does happen

I pick up any and all pennies, and drop them into one of two containers: my zinc jar (post 1982), and the copper penny bin (coppers now worth three cents each). I weigh the 1982 ones on my gram scale to see if they are copper or zinc.

I roll and spend the zinc ones (retail stores take rolled change just fine). I keep the coppers.

I've found three silver dimes here and there, but no silver quarters yet. I always look, though.

And, as Scott said, I feel a rush of happiness with every coin I find.