"Scraps"

Before 7/7/7 ended, I found 10 more pennies. All near the W. 4th area -- previously dubbed as a "Money Zone". It's still holding up to its moniker.

And normally 10 pennies would be a pretty sizable amount. Except when you find 261 other coins in one spot.

All told, I found $2.83 cents yesterday. That is the most amount I've found on one day. And unlikely to be surpassed unless I found some paper money worth $5 or more.

And I almost added to that. After midnight, I found a quarter near my building. Falls upon today's count but hey, the "change mojo" was still working.

LUCKY 7/7/7 ! ! !

Boy did this day turn out to be LUCKY. However it started pretty normal.

I went on a bike ride from my place over to the West Side Highway and up around Herald Square. During my short trip I spotted 3 pennies at two intersections. Yes, I'm a geek and got off my bike and picked them up. Nothing special about that.

After I had gotten back home and rested a little, I went out for some pizza. I picked up a dime by the bus stop near the corner. Cool. While I was approaching the Catholic Church on PPW and saw about 5 pennies on the sidewalk. Hmm. Odd. Usually I see one or two but a group means something's up. Then I noticed a few more in the street.

I started to pick them up.

A kid sitting on the steps to the Church said, some lady had a bag and it broke. All these pennies fell out. And I looked around. It was like the sidewalk was covered in pennies. I gasped.

So I started picking them up. There were a lot! I stopped counting at 60. I maneuvered around the sidewalk and tried to pick them up as fast as I could. Someone came by and saw what I was doing and started picking up the change too. Oh, damn! I'm not going to get the total amount. Oh well.

BUT!

Being a GREAT Samaritan, she hands me what she had picked up. I said Thank you!

My pockets were bulging. With pennies, ahem.

So I went and got some pizza. Found a penny there and moseyed on home with my treasure find.

I counted the amount at home: 258 pennies. 2 Canadian pennies. 1 Bahamian penny.

Biggest find of the year!

Biggest find for one day for the year! Today's total adds up to (not including foreign currency) $2.73.

258 Pennies. Now that's some missing change, ladies.

Removed

I guess the "legacy" is over. The one sign at Connecticut Muffin was taken down. I noticed it wasn't there this morning.

Oh well.

Last night I managed to find 8 cents (a nickel and 3 pennies) after hanging out with a friend at a "Park Slope" pub on 4th avenue. My how boundaries change.

This morning I found a penny. Yay me.

The Wall

I was at a fine establishment yesterday celebrating the fourth with drinks and a bbq. And I just happened to sit at this one corner where part of the wall was covered in pennies. My friends had to restrain me or it could've been disastrous.

During the course of the evening, my friend was explaining my blog to the other one and dropped a quarter. Actually she tried to drop it, it fell into her umbrella and she shook it out. Sigh. It's going in the "friends" category.

But at least I did find a penny yesterday.

Include or ignore?

So for the few readers out there of this blog, I want to pose these questions. On numerous occasions, I have seen coins, primarily pennies, embedded in the street, pavement or some hard surface that would make it impossible for me to retrieve it. Does this get included in the tally or do I just say "tough luck" and have to pass on it? In a related question, I have often seen a penny that is within someone's personal comfort zone, say on the subway or sitting down at a table and it would be rather odd for me to approach them to retrieve the penny. To this day, I haven't included either of these occurrences simply because I did not get the penny. Should I alter my policy?

The missing MISSING sign

On my way home tonight after getting a rather cryptic clue as to where the final sign for the missing change could be I peered into a store and saw it posted on the wall. Obscure but not inconspicuous. Refrained but not hidden. Well placed. I won't take it down. In fact, I want to see how long it will remain there. It will become part of the legacy. Thank you AA and LR.

Prayers Answered

This evening I found a dime. A DIME! I was so overjoyed I sang Broadway songs throughout the streets. Well, not really. I actually spotted the coin a few blocks away and it was on the sidewalk amongst a few people milling about. There for the taking. And yet, no one did. Until, I showed up.