Could you have a penny worth way more than one cent? Or a quarter worth a small fortune? A 1943 bronze Lincoln cent, a 1944 ...

Only Congress has the power to do that, but what would happen if the United States got rid of the one-cent coin? The U.S. Mint said it lost $85.3 million last year minting 3.2 billion new pennies.

You don’t need to be a coin collector to have piggy banks stashed ... around your house could far exceed their face value of one cent. Let’s take a deeper dive into the world of pretty pennies.

What good is a 1-cent coin that takes (according to the US Mint’s most recent annual report) 3.69 cents to produce? But that line of reasoning makes sense only if the value of a penny is ...