Coins

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Coins serve as the currency for Shops, the payment for the Donation Machine in Shops, and payment for Slot Machines, Fortune Telling Machines, Shell Games, Beggars, (except in Rebirth)Shop Restock Machines, and (in Repentance and Repentance+)Crane Games. They are also consumed to use a few activated items (most notably Magic Fingers and Portable Slot). (except in Rebirth)Keeper can also pick up coins to refill his health.

Coin ID Image Worth Additional Info Unlock Method Probability
Penny 5.20.1 Penny.png 1 Humbleing Bundle and (except in Rebirth and Afterbirth)Equality! can replace this with a Double Penny. Always unlocked
(except in Repentance+)
92.63%
(in Repentance+)
91.717%
Nickel 5.20.2 Nickel.png 5 Always unlocked
(except in Repentance+)
4.68%
(in Repentance+)
4.875%
Dime 5.20.3 Dime.png 10 Always unlocked
(except in Repentance+)
1.00%
(in Repentance+)
0.995%
Double Penny 5.20.4 Double Penny.png 2 Can't spawn naturally as a normal coin. Can only be found by using certain items or encountering certain room layouts. Always unlocked 0.00%
(except in Rebirth) Lucky Penny 5.20.5 Lucky Penny.png 1 Increases luck by 1 when picked up.
Humbleing Bundle and (except in Rebirth and Afterbirth)Equality! will not double this.
Bumbo and Bum Friend will pick this up, but will not give Isaac any luck.
Lucky Pennies Donate 2 Coins to the Greed Donation Machine
(except in Repentance+)
0.94%
(in Repentance+)
0.985%
(except in Rebirth) Sticky Nickel 5.20.6 Nickel.png 5 Will flip upside-down when Isaac tries to collect it. Afterwards, it will get stuck on the ground, unable to be picked up unless blasted off the ground with an explosion.
Bumbo and Bum Friend are unable to pick this up; they instead hover over them, attempting to pick them up.

A Level 4 Bumbo will drop bombs in an attempt to pick it up.

Sticky Nickels Complete the link=Boss Rush alt=Boss Rush as link=Keeper alt=Keeper
(except in Repentance+)
0.25%
(in Repentance+)
0.926%
(in Repentance and Repentance+) Golden Penny 5.20.7 Golden Penny.png 1 Spawns another golden penny in a random spot in the same room after being picked up, but has a small but increasing chance of disappearing instead. (in Repentance and Repentance+)Golden Penny Defeat Mega Satan as link=Tainted Keeper alt=Tainted Keeper 0.50%

Notes

  • (in Repentance and Repentance+) Upon pickup, golden pennies have a 0.98(n1) chance to spawn another golden penny, where n represents the number of times it has been picked up.
  • (except in Rebirth and Repentance+) Unlocking Sticky Nickels is strictly speaking a downgrade, as they replace normal nickels, though the sticky ones are rare enough to not make a severe difference.
  • (except in Rebirth) If Lucky Pennies have not been unlocked, they will always be replaced by a Penny in any room layouts containing them.
    • (in Repentance and Repentance+) Golden Pennies will also be replaced by random Coin pickup if not unlocked yet.
  • (except in Rebirth and Afterbirth) Booster Pack#5 added a green glow to Lucky Pennies, making them easier to spot. This was from this Steam Workshop mod by piber20.
  • (except in Rebirth)Ultra Greed and his statue cannot pick up Sticky Nickels until they have been unstuck by an explosion, thus negating some difficulty from the fight.
    • During the Ultra Greed fight, if a Sticky Nickel drops, Ultra Greed will be continuously drawn to it.
    • (in Repentance and Repentance+)Bumbino also has this behaviour.
  • (in Repentance and Repentance+) Sticky Nickels visibly stick to the ground upon spawning, making them easier to distinguish from ordinary nickels.
  • (in Repentance and Repentance+) Sack Head can cause a Golden Penny to spawn a sack instead of another Golden Penny.
  • The probabilities in the table refer to the kind of coin that is generated by the game when a coin is spawned with a sub-type of 0 (i.e. a random coin).

Unlockable Achievements