# Can You Help me Find an Article? Re: Picking Up Pennies **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 6, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-an-article-re-picking-up-pennies/383001 "2006-12-06T00:17:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-an-article-re-picking-up-pennies/383001/1 "2006-12-06T00:17:20Z")
I remember reading an article a few years back about how much money could be made picking up coins off the street. My (somewhat faulty) memory insists thatit was about some college students who had done a study on that subject and they found that you could earn more than minimum wage by picking up change off of the streets of New York City. A figure sticks out in my mind as the amount they averaged per hour: $6.70. Yahoo hasn’t helped. Does anyone else remember this? ---
**Author:** ![rocksolid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@rocksolid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocksolid)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-an-article-re-picking-up-pennies/383001/2 "2006-12-06T01:49:24Z")
It isn’t possible you are mistakenly remembering one of Cecil’s own are you? [http://straightdope.com/classics/a1\_334.html](http://straightdope.com/classics/a1_334.html) ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-an-article-re-picking-up-pennies/383001/3 "2006-12-06T03:13:39Z")
No, that’s not it. If I remember correctly, it was the results of a research paper or a thesis done by a team of college students who actually collected the change.