It’s officially a day to think about good-luck charms.
May 23 is National Lucky Penny Day, according to the National Day Calendar™, the website that tracks unusual and unique national days and has a day for just about everything.
In its notes about the day, the calendar includes that rhyme we all seem to know: “See a penny, pick it up, all day long, you’ll have good luck.” (The version of the rhyme I learned had a slightly different beginning. I was told it starts with: “Find a penny …”)
Other facts about the one-cent coin:
The U.S. Mint opened for full-time coin production in 1793, and the penny was among the first coins that it produced. Back then, the penny was 100 percent copper. Abraham Lincoln’s profile has been on the penny since 1909, the 100th anniversary of his birth. He was the first U.S. president to be featured on a coin. And, there are more one-cent coins produced than any other denomination.
If a penny isn’t your lucky charm, what’s your go-to item? And do you think good-luck charms really work?
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