A total of one million dollars, in the form of one hundred million pennies, was displayed in New York's Rockefeller Center Monday in what was named the Penny Harvest Field.

The pennies lined a pedestrian walkway between 50th and 51st Streets, as well as Fifth Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas, forming an exhibit 30 feet by 165 feet. It will be open for the public daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., until the end of the year.

Children from 800 schools going door to door between October 22 and Thanksgiving collected the coins, according to the Associated Press. The pennies will then be given as donations to charities of their choice.

More than 300 elementary and middle school students, as well as Silda Wall Spitzer, the wife of Governor Eliot Spitzer, witnessed the unveiling of the exhibit, which was designed by architect James S. Polshek.

The exhibit is the finale of the annual Penny Harvest, which is on its 17th celebration. The Harvest is part of an educational Common Cents program which runs year long, advocating civic involvement of the city youth.

The New York Times reported that the pennies will be returned to the children early next year, and will then be distributed to charities.

The article added that last year's exhibit, involving 448,768 students, gathered a total of $643,840.83 in pennies. The collection was then used to make 1,361 grants and provide support to 315 neighborhood service projects.