Stopping to pick up a stray penny off the ground may not seem worth the effort, yet one bank is trying to change that mindset by placing 100 fake pennies across the country worth $1,000 apiece.
Ally Bank says it is hoping to encourage Americans to look for opportunities to save through its “Lucky Penny” promotion, which launched this week. The lucky pennies carry a copper color like real pennies, but feature the Detroit-based bank’s logo instead of Abraham Lincoln’s head. The flip side of the coin lists its value at 100,000 cents.
The pennies have been placed in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Miami, Denver, Detroit, San Diego, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Austin, Texas.
The coins can be redeemed online until the end of the year.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Not fair to limit it to only a few areas. There are many homeless people who are in other areas that would like to participate, and even normal citizens.
What about Washington state thsnks
What ? Only 11 cities where these fake pennies are to be found ? And in some of the most populated cities in the US.Why not all over ? Unless you live there, you aint gonna see one red cent of it and you aint gonna get rich for even a little while either. It could have been better.
Awesome news for a change????Thank you
It would have been better if you would chosen cities with 250,000 or smaller.
Maybe this is the penny that Hell-lary told the press that the national debt will not go up by a penny. A penny worth a trillion dollars