O O O
 O O O
O O O

nearby pennies touching. By the fewest number of legal moves, transform the pattern into the pattern

   O
  O O
 O   O
O O O O

nearby pennies touching. A legal move consists of sliding a penny, not picking up a penny, without disturbing the other pennies, to a new position touching at least two pennies.

Easy for me, all I had to do was copy Sing4TheDay.

Haven't actually tried it myself yet. It just kind of looked like it was possible. Sorry.