diff --git a/apps/price_pusher/package.json b/apps/price_pusher/package.json
index 1f22544038..cca555dd7c 100644
--- a/apps/price_pusher/package.json
+++ b/apps/price_pusher/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@pythnetwork/price-pusher",
-  "version": "6.7.1",
+  "version": "6.7.2",
   "description": "Pyth Price Pusher",
   "homepage": "https://pyth.network",
   "main": "lib/index.js",
diff --git a/apps/price_pusher/src/index.ts b/apps/price_pusher/src/index.ts
index eb2d6537e8..fa611fa057 100644
--- a/apps/price_pusher/src/index.ts
+++ b/apps/price_pusher/src/index.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ import near from "./near/command";
 import solana from "./solana/command";
 
 yargs(hideBin(process.argv))
+  .parserConfiguration({
+    "parse-numbers": false,
+  })
   .config("config")
   .global("config")
   .command(evm)
diff --git a/apps/price_pusher/src/sui/command.ts b/apps/price_pusher/src/sui/command.ts
index 91aaa0f5c3..52f2cfe009 100644
--- a/apps/price_pusher/src/sui/command.ts
+++ b/apps/price_pusher/src/sui/command.ts
@@ -44,6 +44,13 @@ export default {
       required: true,
       default: 30,
     } as Options,
+    "ignore-gas-objects": {
+      description:
+        "Gas objects to ignore when merging gas objects on startup -- use this for locked objects.",
+      type: "array",
+      required: false,
+      default: [],
+    } as Options,
     "gas-budget": {
       description: "Gas budget for each price update",
       type: "number",
@@ -73,6 +80,7 @@ export default {
       pythStateId,
       wormholeStateId,
       numGasObjects,
+      ignoreGasObjects,
       gasBudget,
       accountIndex,
     } = argv;
@@ -126,7 +134,8 @@ export default {
       endpoint,
       keypair,
       gasBudget,
-      numGasObjects
+      numGasObjects,
+      ignoreGasObjects
     );
 
     const controller = new Controller(
diff --git a/apps/price_pusher/src/sui/sui.ts b/apps/price_pusher/src/sui/sui.ts
index cbdf0234b6..71bf4359cb 100644
--- a/apps/price_pusher/src/sui/sui.ts
+++ b/apps/price_pusher/src/sui/sui.ts
@@ -162,7 +162,8 @@ export class SuiPricePusher implements IPricePusher {
     endpoint: string,
     keypair: Ed25519Keypair,
     gasBudget: number,
-    numGasObjects: number
+    numGasObjects: number,
+    ignoreGasObjects: string[]
   ): Promise<SuiPricePusher> {
     if (numGasObjects > MAX_NUM_OBJECTS_IN_ARGUMENT) {
       throw new Error(
@@ -183,7 +184,8 @@ export class SuiPricePusher implements IPricePusher {
     const gasPool = await SuiPricePusher.initializeGasPool(
       keypair,
       provider,
-      numGasObjects
+      numGasObjects,
+      ignoreGasObjects
     );
 
     const pythClient = new SuiPythClient(
@@ -318,17 +320,26 @@ export class SuiPricePusher implements IPricePusher {
 
   // This function will smash all coins owned by the signer into one, and then
   // split them equally into numGasObjects.
+  // ignoreGasObjects is a list of gas objects that will be ignored during the
+  // merging -- use this to store any locked objects on initialization.
   private static async initializeGasPool(
     signer: Ed25519Keypair,
     provider: SuiClient,
-    numGasObjects: number
+    numGasObjects: number,
+    ignoreGasObjects: string[]
   ): Promise<SuiObjectRef[]> {
     const signerAddress = await signer.toSuiAddress();
 
+    if (ignoreGasObjects.length > 0) {
+      console.log("Ignoring some gas objects for coin merging:");
+      console.log(ignoreGasObjects);
+    }
+
     const consolidatedCoin = await SuiPricePusher.mergeGasCoinsIntoOne(
       signer,
       provider,
-      signerAddress
+      signerAddress,
+      ignoreGasObjects
     );
     const coinResult = await provider.getObject({
       id: consolidatedCoin.objectId,
@@ -458,7 +469,8 @@ export class SuiPricePusher implements IPricePusher {
   private static async mergeGasCoinsIntoOne(
     signer: Ed25519Keypair,
     provider: SuiClient,
-    owner: SuiAddress
+    owner: SuiAddress,
+    initialLockedAddresses: string[]
   ): Promise<SuiObjectRef> {
     const gasCoins = await SuiPricePusher.getAllGasCoins(provider, owner);
     // skip merging if there is only one coin
@@ -472,6 +484,7 @@ export class SuiPricePusher implements IPricePusher {
     );
     let finalCoin;
     const lockedAddresses: Set<string> = new Set();
+    initialLockedAddresses.forEach((value) => lockedAddresses.add(value));
     for (let i = 0; i < gasCoinsChunks.length; i++) {
       const mergeTx = new TransactionBlock();
       let coins = gasCoinsChunks[i];
@@ -497,7 +510,6 @@ export class SuiPricePusher implements IPricePusher {
             "quorum of validators because of locked objects. Retried a conflicting transaction"
           )
         ) {
-          /*
           Object.values((e as any).data).forEach((lockedObjects: any) => {
             lockedObjects.forEach((lockedObject: [string, number, string]) => {
               lockedAddresses.add(lockedObject[0]);
@@ -505,7 +517,6 @@ export class SuiPricePusher implements IPricePusher {
           });
           // retry merging without the locked coins
           i--;
-           */
           continue;
         }
         throw e;
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 4b433af7be..2983149b82 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
     },
     "apps/price_pusher": {
       "name": "@pythnetwork/price-pusher",
-      "version": "6.7.1",
+      "version": "6.7.2",
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
         "@injectivelabs/sdk-ts": "1.10.72",