The Lincoln Wheat Penny has been valued at an astonishing price, with some of the rarest versions of the coin rumored to be ...

The combination of "copper" and "penny" might not seem like the best formula for valuable coins considering that you can find ...

The trouble with being the sort of person who gives credit where it's due is the sort of people you sometimes have to give ...

Coin values fluctuate, but it's worth checking your coin jars for this rare penny. Who knows? You could be a millionaire.

New England numismatists have conflicting feelings about the potential end to a coin that has survived more than 200 years of ...

It was Theodore Roosevelt — a lifelong admirer of Abraham Lincoln — who ordered the U.S. Mint to introduce copper pennies ...

Today's penny is made of copper and zinc. In 1909, Abraham Lincoln replaced Liberty on the penny. In 2009, the U.S. Mint issued four different pennies — with different symbols on the reverse ...

The Mint reported a loss of $85.3 million on the nearly 3.17 billion pennies it produced in the fiscal year ending September 2024. The likeness of Abraham Lincoln is seen on a U.S. one-cent coin ...

Pennies were made of copper before 1962 and are currently made majority of zinc but with copper plating. Lincoln has been on the penny since 1909, and the penny was the first coin made by the U.S ...

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

Now he has set his sights on the humble penny. The Lincoln one-cent coin could be scrapped, with Trump ordering the Treasury Department and U.S. Mint to stop producing the coins. That followed an ...