The highest price ever seen for a bronze Lincoln 1943-S penny was sold to collector Bob R. Simpson, co-chairman of the Texas ...

If you find a penny ... more about these pennies! In 1943 as copper and nickel were needed by allies of the war, almost all circulating pennies were made from zinc-coated steel.

it’s the zinc-coated steel pennies that were minted in the hundreds of thousands and not the rare copper pennies of the same year. The penny in question is labeled as a 1943 1C Struck on a ...

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

Every penny costs 3.7 cents to manufacture and the U.S. Treasury lost $85.3 million in 2024 producing them, the U.S. Mint ...

This wheat design remained on the penny until 1958 ... While most Lincoln Wheat Pennies are made of copper and zinc, a rare mistake occurred in 1943 during World War II. The U.S. government ...