Stoop to conquer - the small change question

[Brazen]

If you drop a coin in the street, what is the lowest denomination you'd bother to stop and pick up? I skip over any coppers but I'd waver around the 5p mark depending on what cash I have with me.

I'll answer for Mono too: I pick up anything, including what other people have dropped. It all mounts up.

[Josephus]

I'd pick up a quarter (25 cents).

[Valmy]

Thomas Jefferson and above.

[syk]

I drop a coin, I pick it up again.

[DisturbedPervert]

I pick up everything I drop

[Slargos]

Pick up most stuff I drop. Not because I would miss that particular coin, but because of general standards when it comes to littering.

A more pertinent question is the lowest denomination of coin you will pick up that you simply noticed lying around on the street without an apparent owner.

[Alcibiades]

If I drop it, usually pick it up depending the situation.  If other people drop it and I see it on the ground later..... maybe a quarter but probably not.

[Barrister]

Leave the pennies, pick up anything else.

[Fate]

Change is a hassle. Plastic4lyfe.

[Savonarola]

I'll pick up the pennies; here in Detroit people chop down telephone poles to steal the copper inside power transformers.  I just wouldn't be keeping it real if I didn't stoop to pick up copper (or copper plated zinc) coins.

[KRonn]

I'll usually pick up any coin that I drop, or see on the street. Though I may not do so for pennies. But I could always drop a dollar bill down as incentive, so as I'm picking that up I also might as well get the coin too.   

[Josquius]

Depends on the weather and my current mood.
Sometimes I'll pick up everything, other times when its raining and I'm annoyed I'll ignore copper or perhaps even 5p.

A more pertinent question is the lowest denomination of coin you will pick up that you simply noticed lying around on the street without an apparent owner.

Yep.
Especially since there is a stigma attached to doing that. I remember one time when I found a pound some kids still saw fit to call me a scratter.
50p and above are definates there.
20p is a probally.
10p a maybe.
Below that though and no.

[Habbaku]

I pick up any coin that isn't foreign currency.

[Brazen]

Kids just don't stick coins to the ground as a practical joke these days

It probably happens in cottaging venues, though.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

If it's bigger than a penny and I dropped it. I'll pick it up. otherwise I leave it. Though I often will check a penny if it's tails up I turn it over, head's up and I'm with a friend I give it to them for good luck. To which most people go "Ew gross street penny? how is that good luck?" :p