See a penny, pick it Up?

If you see a penny – do you pick it up? The original good luck rhyme wasn’t a penny.

See a penny, pick it up and all the day you’ll have good luck. That’s the rhyme most of us have heard at one time or another. But the original rhyme did not involve a penny – it was a pin. The Pagans didn’t want a good pin to go to waste when it could be used for casting a good luck spell.

The rhyme has morphed over the centuries, and some have invoked a heads up only rule. And giving that found penny to a friend is supposed to up the luck factor.