Friday is National Lucky Penny Day, but the future for the penny is not looking so lucky. The U.S. Treasury confirmed Thursday it ordered its last round of pennies; after that runs out, they will no ...

After more than 200 years, the U.S. bids adieu to the penny, citing high production costs and shifting economic practices.

Most circulating coins and bills are only worth their face value, meaning a one-cent coin is typically just worth one cent, and so on and so forth. However, certain specimens can sell for ...

In a post on X, President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, led by billionaire Elon Musk, took aim at the cost of minting the 1-cent coin, a price tag that’s increased 20% in ...

Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper Access ... and plans to stop making new 1 cent coins after those run out. Coin production costs ...

President Donald Trump announced Sunday he’s ordered his administration to cease production of the 1-cent coin, whose buying power is long past its prime. Advocates for ditching the penny cite ...

Amid the recent flurry of Trump's often contentious executive orders, he announced Sunday night that he'd ordered Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to halt the production of the 1-cent coins ...

In the 1990s, Australia and New Zealand stopped 1- and 2-cent penny production. Then in 2006, New Zealand stopped producing its 5-cent coin as well, per Nasdaq. Canada followed suit in 2012 ...

(WAVY) — Could you have a penny worth way more than one ... copper cent. In 1982, they changed the composition from copper to zinc. And so the 83s are zinc.” Besides finding an old coin ...