Montreal man walks the city streets, donating coins he finds to charity

A man picks a coin up from the street.
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When Young S. New walks down the street, he's typically looking down, trying to spot a forgotten coin.

The Montreal resident, a 77-year-old grandfather of five, searches for coins on the ground, as well as inside pay phones and by parking meters. This is good exercise, but also something he does because as a child, he was taught to "respect the penny," New told CBC News. "It costs about 11.2 cents to make a nickel. Losing one nickel means 16.2 cents is gone."

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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.