I've never heard of this before. Also, I have never seen it before, although I don't visit graveyards very often. Good to know if it's true.

Never heard this either. Anyone not wearing a hoodie up, inside, in the dark able to confirm this? Would not take the coin anyway!

Wierd? Never heard of this.

Not just small change, other objects are left as an "Homage" too.

It is true. I take my mom to see my brother's (her son's) grave and she cries with joy when she sees the coins. Please don't take the money.

I wasn't sure about the veteran thing and the denominations

but in Jewish cemeteries

that is basically the clout that you are well admired by all your visitors when they leave a coin on your headstone

someplace it is a pebble

it is a signal to your family that your well admired and remembered and people visit you

Around here the Jewish headstones get a small stone, I've seen that practice spreading to other cemeteries.. Basically an acknowledgement that someone visited..

I saw that on Sanibel Island in Fla. A first for me. I put the first few coins back where they were.

I leave a coin on certain graves I visit some also receive a fish hook or small spinner, maybe a rifle case depends on the relationship I had with the friend gone.

The Grandkids put pennies on my Father in laws Stone

Interesting

If you are stealing change in a cemetary you need to join those 6' under
Or at least get a good beating

On a veterans stone
Penny = someone visited
Nickle= someone they went to basic with visited
Dime= someone they served with visited
Quarter = someone who was present when they passed visited.

Thank you for sharing! Learn something new everyday.

I've seen coins glued down to gravestones. Epoxy maybe. I figured someone had glued them down for a good reason.
Lots of kids go to graveyards, Memorial Day, funerals and such. It would be just like a kid to scoop up a coin just like they would from the ground. Makes sense why they are glued down I guess.

I just read the coins are collected monthly and it helps with costs of upkeep and future burrials.

Never heard of that.
I know they used to put pennys on dead peoples eyes in the casket.

Who said you can't take it with you.

Anyone leaves anything other than flowers or a dump on my grave is as big a fool as I thought you were in life.

Mauldlin sentimentality is destroying our society.