Coins For Luck
If good luck is your goal, carry a coin from a leap year between 1916 and 1946. Silver coins are said to work best (1916, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944).
Some people believe than wearing a penny in your shoe will bring good luck (penny loafers anyone?).
Anyone heard this: “See a penny, pick it up, all the day you’ll have good luck. See a penny, let it lay, bad luck follows you all day.” Some say it should be found “heads up”.
An Indian Head Cent is thought to be the “luckiest” lucky penny.
In days of sailing ships, the captain would nail a coin to the mast of his ship for good luck.
A bride was to place a coin in her left shoe on the day of her wedding to bring about a lucky marriage (an English sixpence was the coin of choice).
Toss a coin in a fountain and make a wish.
Clubs and Associations
- American Numismatic Association
- American Numismatic Society
- British Numismatic Society
- Central Ohio Numismatic Association
- Central States Numismatic Society
- Florida United Numismatists
- Numismatic Society of India
- the Cincinnati Numismatic Association
- The Royal Canadian Numismatic Association
- The Royal Numismatic Society
Coin Links
- Boy Scouts Merit Badge
- Buffalo Nickels
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Calculate your coin's gold, silver, or metallic worth
- Coins & Currency in Colonial America
- David Lawrence Rare Coins Reference Library
- Dayton Metro Library – Coin Books
- Fixing PVC damage
- Indian Head Cents
- Legandary Coins and Currency from the Smithsonian
- Medalblog
- Mints of the World
- Monnaie de Paris
- NapoleonicMedals.org
- raregoldcoins.com
- Royal Canadian Mint
- Smithsonian Institution Collection
- Starting a coin collection
- The Kittredge Collection
- The Perth Mint
- The Pobjoy Mint
- The Princeton University Numismatic Collection
- The Royal Mint
- United States Mint
- University of Virginia Coin Collection
- Where is my coin from?
Coin News
Miami Valley Coin Dealers
Speciality Clubs
- American Tax Token Society
- Barber Coin Collectors' Society
- Dayton Diggers Metal Detecting Club
- Early American Coppers
- Encased Collectors International
- Fly-In Club
- Liberty Seated Collector's Club
- Medal Collectors of America
- National Token Collectors Association
- Numismatic Bibliomania Society
- The Bust Half Nut Club
- The Civil War Token Society
- The Colonial Coin Collectors Club
- The Elongated Collectors
- The John Reich Collectors Society
- The Society of Paper Money Collectors
- The Token and Medals Society
- Unrecognised States Numismatic Society
- Worldwide Bi-Metallic Collectors Club