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Leaving Pennies on a Grave
There are many traditions that involve placing objects, specifically money, on graves. These traditions are usually regional or customary practices and do not necessarily have religious connotations.
In American tradition, pennies are left on Benjamin Franklin's grave. There is a photo of his funeral in Philadelphia; his grave is adorned with pennies, no doubt placed there as a token by some of the 20,000 people that came that day to pay their respects. This custom was eventually associated with good luck and may have spread to graves in general in America. Some use pennies as a prayer token for the line "In God we trust" which appears on the American penny.
Some people hold to the tradition of leaving something of yourself when visiting a grave. If nothing else, a coin from your pocket serves as a marker of your passage and esteem for the departed. It also signifies to any that pass by that the grave was visited, and that the deceased is well loved and esteemed and has not been abandoned or forgotten. Coins are also an older form of leaving flowers, a practice prompted by the heavy Romanticism of the Victorian era. Some believe that to leave a coin on a grave brings good luck. Students in some areas are known to leave pennies on the graves of their school's founder in the hopes of good luck with exams. Some are, perhaps unwittingly, mimicking the ancient tradition where gold coins were buried with the corpse in order to pay the toll charged by Charon, the boatman of the Underworld, for passage to the other side of the river Styx. It was considered impious not to leave this toll with the dead as it would condemn them to forever wander the shores without cease. It started as an old tradition to leave a penny at the grave site of a loved one as a gesture of deep love and missing. However, when tourists pay their respect to Benjamin Franklin, pennies dot his tombstone, as a local tradition claims that such a practice will bring the penny-tosser luck. Of course he is a a man famous for the line, "A penny saved, is a penny earned,".
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What type of person would put pennies on a grave?
Any person may leave pennies on a grave but the significance is usually associated with a deep respect, love, and a enormous sense of loss.
Why do people put pennies on Benjamin Franklin's grave?
Because it means good luck or lucky
Why are pennies put on Ben Franklin's grave?
It is considered lucky. Many couples about to get married will kiss and toss a penny onto the grave for good fortune in marriage. I encourage you to read the articles at the links below. They are quite interesting.
Why do people put pennies face down on John Wilkes Booth's grave?
because a quote a penny sold is a Penney spent
What does mean to found pennies on grave?
Pennies are a way of saying that you have come by to pay respects to the deceased . ~ see discussion link below .
Why put pennies in penny loafers?
For good luck! And you would never broke if you had pennies in your shoes
How can you make 2 rows of 4 out of 6 pennies?
Make an X with 5 pennies. Put hte 6th pennies on top of the center penny.
How do you destroy a grave in Plants vs Zombies?
you plant a grave buster on the grave and it will destroy it in a few seconds, but a zombie can destroy the grave buster when it's planted on the grave so you should put something in front of the grave buster when it is destroying a grave. hope it helped :D
Where was the book of the dead put?
It was put with the last pharaoh that died,in the pharaoh's grave
How many pennies can you put into an empty 1 gal bottle?
it usally rounds up two 1,500 pennies
Who put the flowers on Selena Perez's grave?
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What did billy put on Rubin Pritchard's grave?
flowers
