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

I don’t use straws much, but I have to say President Donald Trump hit a home run last week with his executive order banning paper straws at all federal government facilities. Trump was right when he ...

With the penny potentially about to become extinct as a result of President Donald Trump's guidance to the Treasury ...

Portland Mint sells old pennies in bulk to investors angling to profit on the copper that makes up 95% of the coins minted ...

Cease production of the penny, let collectors gobble up what’s left of the 1 cent coin, and there will still be one eternally ...

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 ...

The phrase “to coin money” is a bit vague. So to fix that, the United States’ second Congress passed the Coinage Act of 1792, ...

Since Congress has failed to eliminate the penny in the past, Trump is trying to do so via a direct order to the Treasury ...

Eliminating the penny via a social media post, like President Donald Trump did,, isn't just legally dubious. It could cause ...

The U.S. government loses less than $10 million a month minting pennies. In theory, Congress could pass legislation eliminating the penny and requiring rounding within a month or two. The cost to the ...

President Trump became the latest U.S. president to say he wants to kill the penny. Both Republicans and Democrats have tried and failed for decades to get rid of America's one-cent coin.