I can spot them even at night now - car headlights reflect off them.
I also have a collection of some several hundred buttons that I found too - I pick these up as well.
You bet. I doubt it originated with me anyway.
I’ll pick up any coin except for a tails-side-up penny. Someone once told me that was bad luck.
The other day I dropped a quarter, and I was going to leave it, but my girlfriend picked it up. Then I dropped a nickel (not on purpose) and had to talk her out of it.
I pick up all coins I see. Unless it’s in a pile of doggie doo. But I haven’t seen that.
I figure passing it by is like telling the fates: I don’t need 25 cents.
And the fates will reply: we will teach you what it’s like to need that 25 cents…
I’ve been picking up coins for a few decades. Just the pennies alone, I have a few hundred dollars’ worth. Other coins just go into my pocket change and spent.
I once found a 1914-D cent in a parking lot. In that condition, it’s worth quite a lot.
I’m an inveterate coin picker-upper, even the little 25- and 50-satang coins that are only good in the grocery store (or on some buses with fares in the half-baht, but I never take buses anymore). Giving them to the store clerks means they won’t be giving any to me, plus it helps keep them stocked up.
No smaller than quarters.
All the time. I’m cheap enough.
A few years back my Dad- then in his late 80’s was on a bus when a woman getting on the bus attempted to pay her fare with coins. A $1 coin was dropped and rolled off the stairs and under the bus- no time to look for it (this was not in the city I might add). So Dad waited and got off at the next stop and walked back to the previous stop to pick up the coin.
It was still there. Except it was a rather dirty ten cent piece, not a $1 coin.
It’s a sub-sub-sub hobby of mine. I pick them up when I walk, and I keep track of the total just for grins. Some months I find 2 cents. Other months I’ll find $3.50 worth.
Sunday I found a dollar bill. I used to cruise by a public basketball hoop, and would often coins there!
I usually average about $25 per year.
Today I dropped a subway token (about the size of a dime, but costs $2.65 – bulk rate). You bet your ass I looked for it! Luckily someone else found it and gave it back to me.
Yup, that’s me 
You wonder how on earth that happened - surely you’d notice your wallet had a missing $100? Or that the bill you’d just pulled out to pay with wasn’t in your hand anymore?
I had to let one go today that was both of those - in the road, and stuck in tar 
10p for me - a 5, a 2, and three (rusty) 1s.
Yeah, over the last two years I’ve found some euro cents, and a canadian coin. And lots of annoying bits of cardboard from fireworks that are copper coin shaped, sized and coloured.
Ah, for some reason I can’t bring myself to pick up the bottles for deposit. I’ve picked them up and put them in the glass recycling bin to tidy the neighbourhood, but I don’t think I could bring myself to try and get the money for them!
In Australia there are no coins smaller than a 5 cent piece. My ex-wife anf I, when we had young kids, started picking them up as they are “good luck.” Many years later I have continued the habit, telling myself I’m in for a lucky day (without actually believing it) every time I pick one up.
It is obviously the level at which people can’t be bothered to pick up a coin they drop because nearly every coin I see laying around is a 5. I probably find one or two a year but can’t recall when I last saw a larger denomination coin laying around.
I follow the rules of Penny-omancy. You know the old saying, “Find a penny, pick it up, and all the day you’ll have good luck.” Well, that’s the surface of Penny-omancy.
The amount of “good luck” you’ll receive is in direct proportion to the denomination of the coin. A penny is good luck. A nickel is even more good luck, etc.
But ONLY when it is heads-up.
If it is tails-up, you will receive the same proportion of “bad luck” if you pick it up.
Therefore, if you see a coin tails-up, you must turn it over for another person to find.
Yeah, it’s weird, but I still do it.
Yes. Even pennies and foreign coins.
Some lady at the drive-through said this to me the other day. As a firm proponent of “Lucky Pennies” I do not recognize the “tails-up” variation.
It’s not in the rhyme, so it’s just a lame add on.
I pick up most any change I come across, unless it’s a face-down penny… because it’s bad luck. I’m really not the superstitious type, except for this one thing. Face-up pennies are good luck so I pick them up of course.
All the time. That’s one of the goals when I walk across the quad between lunches - looking for dropped change. I usually find enough in a given month for a 6-pack or so!
That’s a few people have mentioned the bad luck variation now - I have to say I agree with Sateryn76: I’ve never heard it before, it’s not in the rhyme, I’m picking them up regardless of heads up or down!
(17p so far today, and it’s only half ten) 
Nope. Don’t pick em up, don’t carry them.
Every day I come home if I have coins in my pocket I got in change I tip them into different containers. One for the silver (5, 10, 20. 50 cent) and one for the gold ($1 and $2).
I’ll raid the gold ones if I go to the car wash which takes $2 coins but otherwise just fill the containers.
Probably got $100 sitting in the gold one and $300 sitting in the silver one (best guess) When I run out of room I’ll take them to the bank and cash them in.