A pretty penny: 100 million cents displayed in Rockefeller Center as part of charity campaign

One hundred million pennies for your thoughts on the latest display in New York City's Rockefeller Center.

Silda Wall Spitzer, wife of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, joined hundreds of public school children on Monday to unveil a mass of US$1 million (euro680,000) in pennies collected for charity. The display, called the Penny Harvest Field, includes an estimated 100 million pennies _ plus a few nickels, dimes and quarters that slipped in by mistake.

The exhibit, 30-by-165 feet (10-by-50 meters), as long as a city block, is the culmination of the nonprofit organization Common Cents' 17th annual Penny Harvest.

The national educational …