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?).

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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.


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