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 ...
Those coins got a P for the first time in 2017 to honor the 225th anniversary of the Mint. W for West Point appeared on a circulating coin for the first time in 2019, when the facility made 10 ...
Pennies make up more than half of the coins made at the Philadelphia mint, but coin demand has dropped by nearly 10 billion ...
Jerry Petros, the owner of Alliance Coins and Jewelry in Alliance, said the U.S. should have dumped pennies years ago.