See a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck?!

Well that's how the saying goes...
I walked past one yesterday on the ground, though did pick up to 2p I saw further on. Guess what, the penny I saw yesterday was still there! So of course I picked it up.
Not surprising though, as apparently £65million in 1p pieces has gone missing since they were introduced in 1971, of which an estimated £26million-worth are lost on streets!
It seems that those of us that live in the South West are more likely to pick them up, while three quarters of those in London don't!
Guess all I need to do now is make some kind of automatic penny finder that brings me home every 100,000 pennies and eventually I'll be a multi-millionaire!
Only trouble is getting the bank to bank it! Stupid bank wont take more than two bags of coins worth a maximum of £40.00 at once! Dang!