First off, there are two Royal Canadian Mints: the one on Sussex Drive in Ottawa an another in Winnipeg.

The United States Treasury will no longer make pennies, which are copper-colored coins with Abe Lincoln on them. Pennies are ...

Eliminating the penny is more than a practical cost-saving measure. It’s a test of our willingness to confront outdated ...

Painter William Birch moved to Philadelphia from England in 1794 and made a name for himself for his exquisite enamel copies ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Treasury to cease minting the penny coin in a bid to cut government spending, USA ...

Elon Musk's DOGE is taking aim at the U.S. penny, pointing out that it costs more to manufacture than it's worth.

The pilgrims come and go as strangers. They march like a sea of people, walking toward the spot where they take holy baths, ...

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

Valentine's Day might be top of mind for most people, but Mardi Gras is coming up, too. Here's what you need to know about ...

Fort Louis de la Mobile, located about 60 miles south of New Orleans, was named “Pointe du Mardi Gras” on March 2, 1699, by French-Canadian ... men of color, who would receive coins tossed ...

Pennies are mostly made of zinc, with a copper overlay to give them their distinctive color. While zinc's price ... which stopped minting its one-cent coin in 2012. One 2018 economic analysis found ...