When the United States Mint was created in 1792, one of the first coins it made was the one-cent coin. The image on the first ...

President Donald Trump is one cent away from scrapping the US penny and ‘Shark Tank’ star Kevin O’Leary is agreeing with him.

President Donald Trump said he’s instructed the Secretary of the US Treasury to stop making new pennies, writing that they “literally cost us more than 2 cents.” He’s right — in fact, each US penny ...

If you wonder why the penny is going the way of the dodo bird, try to find a penny gumball machine. A penny simply isn’t ...

When President Donald Trump announced his intention to eliminate the penny Sunday, he cited the rising cost of producing the coin. Data from the U.S. Treasury shows it’s not the only coin that costs ...

Per the latest U.S. Mint report, it costs less than six cents to make a dime ($0.0576). To make a quarter, it cost about 15 cents ($0.1468), and nearly 34 cents for a half-dollar ($0.3397).

The penny, whose face value is a modest 1 cent, cost about 3.7 cents to make last year. They aren’t the only expensive coin.

With President Donald Trump setting his sights on the U.S. Mint’s production of pennies, the penny debate has been given ...

President Trump has ordered the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies to save money. It costs almost four cents to make ...

As part of his plan to cut alleged federal government waste, President Donald Trump has ordered the end of the penny.