As part of his plan to cut alleged federal government waste, President Donald Trump is literally pinching pennies, ordering ...

The rolls, bags and boxes of 2025 Native American dollar coins from the United States Mint are priced 5% higher than those ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn) introduced a new bill to commemorate the 250th ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the production of U.S pennies to stop as of Sunday night. Now, Governor Jared Polis, ...

said coins are supposed to stay in circulation for about 30 years and that in the last three decades the U.S. Mint has made about 250 billion pennies. But, he says, “because nobody wants to use ...

Instead, the U.S. Mint simply stops making them, which puts them into the “extinct” category. This has happened a lot in America over the past 250 or so years, with coins coming and going ...

MIT professor Jeff Gore, who founded Citizens to Retire the Penny, said coins are supposed to stay in circulation for about 30 years and that in the last three decades the U.S. Mint has made about 250 ...

There's no evidence the Mint ever claimed to have stopped penny production in April 2023. Its own data shows billions have been minted since then.