His company, Portland Mint, sells old pennies in bulk — 40,000 pounds (18,100 kilograms) at a time — to investors angling to ...

New England numismatists have conflicting feelings about the potential end to a coin that has survived more than 200 years of ...

President Trump called the minting of the coin a waste of money, reviving a longstanding debate about getting rid of the ...

The trouble with being the sort of person who gives credit where it's due is the sort of people you sometimes have to give ...

It was Theodore Roosevelt — a lifelong admirer of Abraham Lincoln — who ordered the U.S. Mint to introduce copper pennies ...

Coin values fluctuate, but it's worth checking your coin jars for this rare penny. Who knows? You could be a millionaire.

President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Treasury to stop minting the penny, reviving the debate over the future of ...

The U.S. Mint produces more than 13 billion pennies each year, although the official name is the “cent” not penny.

The combination of "copper" and "penny" might not seem like the best formula for valuable coins considering that you can find ...

President Donald Trump recently informed the U.S. Treasury Department to stop producing new pennies, citing production cost concerns. In 2024, the U.S. Mint ...

Before the penny, for 64 years, Americans had the half-penny. But like the half-penny, the 1-cent coin has now outlived its usefulness.

Talk to end the penny’s production has been bandied about for decades among government officials and economists.