Penny. Penny.

I feel like I'm on a broken record. Penny here. Penny there. During my lunch break, I found a penny near the Hale & Hearty soup place. It was from 1994. Then when I was coming back from my Norwegian class I spotted another one. This one was from 1987. I think that's twelve pennies in a row I've found....maybe more. When will the streak end? Talk to your Vegas or Macao bookie.

Now for a tangent: Here's an interesting web site that lets you exchange postcards throughout the world: PostCrossing. And yet, all the postcards I send only go to Finland. What exactly is going on in Finland?

Penny-dar

My penny streak continues at a feverish pace. This evening I found: 5 pennies. One near Home Depot. Another near 26th and 6th. Then on the subway ride back to Brooklyn, there were three pennies in my subway car. How strange. The years for the pennies are:
1975, 1977, 1986, 1995 and 2004. It's a record also for how many coins I've found in a day.
Some could use a bit of cleaning.

Triple P

Last night I ventured over to Jersey City to see the showing of "The African Queen" at the Loew's Theatre. Great movie. Even cooler theatre!

At the Grove Street PATH station, I was lucky enough to find not 1, not 2, but 3 pennies!

Dates: 2006, 1988, and 1975.

Boy did my pockets feel heavy after that.

"Common" Cents

Penny. Year: 1991

I find a lot of pennies.

Near Bartel Prichard Square (which is really a circle).

Why is it called Bartel Pritchard Square:

"This site, at the intersection of Prospect Park West and Prospect Park Southwest, was named by the Board of Aldermen on April 10, 1923 after two young Brooklyn natives, Emil Bartel (1895-1918) and William Pritchard. Bartel and Pritchard both died in combat in France during World War I (1914-1918). Bartel resided nearby at 251 Windsor Place and Pritchard lived at 128 Linden Street in Bushwick. The men were close personal friends, both enlisting in Brooklyn’s 13th Regiment of the National Guard. During the War, they served in the 59th Regiment, Coast Artillery."

Pocket Change It Ain't

This site is not to be confused with Pocket Change. ;)

Cold (War) Penny

Wow. For a moment there, it looked pretty bleak. 3 full days without spotting anything. I was beginning to think I had an episode of "Money Block". Maybe I should listen to "Block Money" to get rid of it.

The savior came in the form of a penny near the Duane Reade on Whitehall. It's from 1980 and the temps in NYC are pretty damn frigid right now. Since we're on the topic of cold and the coin was from 1980, the Soviet Union leader at the time was Leonid Brezhnev. And for you kids (i.e. anyone born after 1990) out there, rent Red Dawn.

Houston, we have a dollar.

Yes. I reached the one dollar mark this evening after work. I found this penny at the Whitehall R station. As I was just about to go through the turnstile, I saw it lying almost wedged in at the bottom of the turnstile. The penny is from 1982.

So stats for the first dollar:
1 quarter
5 dimes
2 nickels
15 pennies

Length of time: 22 days

At this rate the newly projected collection goal is close to $16.59.