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asakiyume ([personal profile] asakiyume) wrote2015-11-10 11:32 am
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Find a penny








Lesser-known lore relating to roadside coins.


If you find a penny and you *don't* pick it up, more good luck accrues to it. So, the more people walk by a penny (or other coin) and don't pick it up, the luckier it becomes--but only if they deliberately don't pick it up. If they simply fail to notice it, then it doesn't count.

So you can use this as a good-luck savings account: See a coin, but don't pick it up. Wait a number of days proportional to the amount of good luck you'd like to collect. As with all investments, there are risks. Someone else might pick up your coin.

[livejournal.com profile] littlemoremasks told me that it's only good luck to pick up a heads-up coin. It's bad luck to pick up a tails-up one. If you want to make good luck possible, you should turn the coin over--but you can't then pick it up. You have to leave it for someone else.

I'm not sure [livejournal.com profile] littlemoremasks is right about the bad-luck aspect of tails-up coins. It could be his way of ensuring no one picks up tails-up coins that he's investing luck in.


[identity profile] oiktirmos.livejournal.com 2015-11-10 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it a Canadian penny or an American? As in An African or a European swallow?

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2015-11-11 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
And what's its weight when laden with wishes?