GB. England. Oxford. Oriel College. Ascension Day. Throwing the Pennies. Two of the colleges visited by the Beaters of the Boundary are Oriel and Lincoln, where pennies are thrown down for the beaters who scramble to pick them up. Until recently the pennies were ‘served hot’, to discourage greed, but this has now been curtailed after a hot penny was caught in a woman’s cleavage. 2015.