Per the latest U.S. Mint report, it costs less than six cents to make a dime ($0.0576). To make a quarter, it cost about 15 cents ($0.1468), and nearly 34 cents for a half-dollar ($0.3397).

Every penny costs 3.7 cents to manufacture and the U.S. Treasury lost $85.3 million in 2024 producing them, the U.S. Mint ...

The Lincoln one-cent coin could be scrapped, with Trump ordering the Treasury Department and U.S. Mint to stop producing the ...

Launched in 2021 and continuing through 2025, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution Platinum Proof Coin Series reflects the five freedoms enumerated in the First Amendment to the ...

A collection of 10p coins has sold for £70 on online auction site eBay. The coins are a completed set of the Royal Mint's Great British Coin Hunt. The specially designed Royal Mint collector album was ...

Pennies make up more than half of the coins made at the Philadelphia mint, but coin demand has dropped by nearly 10 billion ...

Ending production of the penny makes sense, a cross-section of area coin collectors and business owners told TribLive after a ...

Representative Mark Amodei has helped to introduce a bill that would change how coins are minted in an effort to make it more ...

President Trump said Sunday he told the U.S. Treasury Department to stop minting pennies. That puts a stop to penny production by the U.S. Mint that ... the composition of coins to cheaper materials.