The U.S. Treasury Department has stopped producing the penny after more than 230 years. It now costs 3.69 cents to produce a single penny, which is significantly more than its face value. Pennies will ...

The last newly circulating pennies are set to be auctioned off next month. The U.S. Mint announced the auction, to be handled by Stack’s Bowers Galleries, in a news release on Tuesday, Nov. 18. The ...

The U.S. Mint has halted production of the circulating penny after the Treasury Department concluded new one-cent coins are no longer needed, even as existing pennies remain legal tender and will stay ...

The final US pennies struck this week might be worth a fortune. Coin experts estimate the last pennies minted Wednesday could sell for as much as $5 million each when they hit the auction block in ...

What, exactly, is the plan for all the pennies? Many Americans—and many people who, though not American, enjoy watching from a safe distance as predictable fiascoes unfold in this theoretical ...

There’s a ring I’ve worn on the middle finger of my left hand for 23 years. And for the 40 years before I wore it, I held the hand that wore it before me every chance I had. It’s thick and gold with ...

You’d need a stack of about 1,200 pennies to reach 5 ft 9 in, the average height of an adult man living in the U.S. This rectangular prism is the same dimensions as the longest, widest and highest ...

Shoppers at Price Chopper and Market 32 stores, which can be found in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont, are being asked to bring in loose or wrapped ...