With President Donald Trump having instructed the Treasury to cease production of the U.S. penny due to cost concerns, as ...

President Trump’s plan to eliminate the penny could save the government money, but there’s no guarantee. By Ben Blatt President Trump recently ordered the U.S. Mint to stop producing pennies ...

But he’s not forgetting small change, either. Trump ordered the Treasury Department to stop making pennies with a Feb. 10 sentence on his social media account that followed years of ...

A Feb. 11 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) includes an image suggesting President Donald Trump’s order for the Treasury Department to stop making new pennies is redundant. “ ...

But if President Trump is going to stop production of the penny, he should ban the nickel, too. As penny opponents have noted, it now costs 3.69 cents to produce a single penny, which has barely ...

Perhaps the demise of the humble penny, the thinking goes, will eventually bring an end to the melting ban – positioning owners of the coins to cash in on their mountains of cheap copper.

But he's not forgetting small change, either. Trump ordered the Treasury Department to stop making pennies with a Feb. 10 sentence on his social media account that followed years of conservatives ...

According to his campaign manager at the time, the plastic straw ban and the adoption of paper ... he ordered the U.S. Treasury to stop minting new pennies. The nettlesome coin may have more ...

Should the U.S. Mint and the federal government end the ban on melting down pennies for their copper content, those holding a treasure trove of the pennies could find themselves sitting on a not ...