Penny On A Grave Stone? (father, member)

[Larry Caldwell]

I visited my father's grave yesterday, and someone had left a shiny new penny on his grave stone. Does anyone know the significance of that?

[Sundaydrive00]

From Snopes:

In these more modern days, coins and other small items are sometimes discovered on grave markers, be they plaques resting atop the sod or tombstones erected at the head of the burial plot. These small tokens are left by visitors for no greater purpose than to indicate that someone has visited that particular grave. It has long been a tradition among Jews, for example, to leave a small stone or pebble atop a headstone just to show that someone who cared had stopped by. Coins (especially pennies) are favored by others who wish to demonstrate that the deceased has not been forgotten and that instead his loved ones still visit him.

Coins Left at Gravesites : snopes.com

[Robino1]

Ben Franklin has been getting pennies for years: Benjamin Franklin, still cashing in The pennies pile up on his grave. - philly-archives

Article was written in 2004 but the practice of putting pennies and other coins on his grave is still ongoing.

[Taluffen]

Friends of my deceased uncle used to leave quarters on his tombstone. He was a bartender so I guess they were leaving a "tip".

[randomparent]

Yep. We always leave a token of some sort when we visit a gravesite. Just a way to say, "You've not been forgotten."

[nightcrawler]

I have came up with an idea for my family members to know I was at the graves, all four of my grandparnets and and Aunt, all have a yellow plastic clothespin clipped to the hedges that line all the graves.
It is on a branch low to the ground, that way when the hedges are trimmed the clothespin is still there. It has been years, and they are still there.........

[Mae Maes Garden]

We believe that a shiny penny showing up in odd places, esp soon after a loss...means that it is a sign from beyond that the loved sends to let one know that all is well. Comforting! Oh the incidences I could share!
Mae

[High_Plains_Retired]

There is a tradition of visitors leaving a guitar pick at the Lubbock, Texas grave site of Buddy Holly in order "to keep the music alive." I suppose this is in spite of Don McLean's 1971 song "American Pie."

In actuality, people leave all kinds of things on the musician's grave.