I used to believe that pennies were made of gold, and therefore must be very valuable! I always saved all the pennies I found on the ground. :)
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- I used to think that of you ripped a dollar 100 pennies would fall out of the rip.— Glad I never tried it
- i used to believe that the "coin wash" was to clean my dirty pennies.— rmutt
- i believe that using gold give electric shock at the time of lightning.so i didnot wear gold when rain starts.— asi18
- I used to belive that there was gold in my nose because pepole would always say that i was "diggin' for gold"!— addicted nose picker
- I used to be believe that white sugar was made from ground up bones— shedrez
- My cousin once told me that glass was made from ground up beetles, and I believed her! — benjymous