$1,000,000 in Pennies in New York City

If you visit Rockefeller Center in New York before the end of the year, you’ll see an “art installation” consisting of $1,000,000 in one-cent coins.

Silda Wall Spitzer, the wife of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, joined more than 300 elementary and middle school students from New York to unveil the “Penny Harvest Field,” an exhibition featuring an estimated 100 million pennies, most of them collected by children, between Oct. 22 and Thanksgiving.

Pennies at Rockefeller Center

Here’s a better look, courtesy of Common Cents, an organization that helps young people become philanthropists.

A serious coin collector wouldn’t mind spending hours sifting through these coins for the chance to come upon a rarity. Instead, the cents will go back to the students and teachers who contributed them. They will choose the charities to be recipients of the funds, presumably in the form of checks rather than bags of cents.

Making Cents, for Children, at Rockefeller Center [New York Times]

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  1. Comment #1 by Mrs. Micah (reply)
    December 11th, 2007 at 10:11 am

    It’s beautiful. And it’s inspiring—pennies can actually be worth something. Little bits add up. Etc.

  2. Comment #2 by thomas (reply)
    December 11th, 2007 at 11:32 am

    Anybody else look at that and want to go swimming in it like in the cartoons?

  3. Comment #3 by Honest Dollar (reply)
    December 11th, 2007 at 3:35 pm

    Think about how much interest those pennies could be earning if it were invested or saved before being donated to charity. The interest/returns foregone might be worth it if people do learn more about the value of money or if the charity gets increased press coverage.

  4. Comment #4 by Patrick (reply)
    December 11th, 2007 at 10:40 pm

    I think that is simply amazing. I am impressed!

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