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After more than 200 years, the U.S. bids adieu to the penny, citing high production costs and shifting economic practices.

The U.S. Mint on Thursday said it has ordered the last batch of pennies after President Donald Trump ordered the elimination of the little-loved one-cent coin. With the cost of producing a single ...

The piece was a 1943 Lincoln bronze cent, a coin that was with the ... How do you know if you have one? The high value of this coin is due to the fact that the Mint stopped using bronze in pennies ...

Once existing penny supplies run out, businesses will begin rounding prices to the nearest five cents.According to the US Mint, taxpayers spent $85.3 million for the minting of nearly 3.2 billion ...

Friday is National Lucky Penny Day, but the future for the penny is not looking so lucky. The U.S. Treasury confirmed Thursday it ordered its last round of pennies; after that runs out, they will no ...

That's notably less pennies than it sent the year prior (when nearly 4.14 billion 1-cent pieces went out) — but circulating shipment for all coins was down about 44% overall. The Mint often ...

making them worth nearly 40 times more than their 50 cent face value. The coins feature an image of a ram on one side and Queen Elizabeth on the other. “It commemorates 25 years since Australia ...

The materials and composition of the coins also add to their value, since many have become precious and hard to find themselves. For example, the 1792 Silver Center Cent J-1 was originally worth ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.