For the last 232 years, a small circular piece of copper and zinc known as the penny has been the smallest denomination of currency in the United States. Originally introduced in 1793, the last one ...

The U.S. Treasury Department halted production of the penny on Nov. 12, ending more than 230 years of minting the nation’s smallest denomination and signalling the copper-colored coin’s gradual exit ...

In February, President Trump ordered the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies because the government was losing money ...

That grimy, circular piece of copper and zinc known as the penny is no longer being produced, but the tiny coin is still getting the last laugh. Less than a month after the last one was minted on Nov.

For more than two centuries, the penny has quietly anchored American cash transactions as the nation's smallest unit of currency. First minted in 1793, the copper-colored coin is now reaching the end ...

Fiscally, the mint didn’t have a logical choice. It was costing about 4 cents to mint a single penny, and that’s mostly due to production costs, not because the price of copper has soared. Since 1982, ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - The U.S. Mint has stopped making pennies as of November 13, ending production of the one-cent coin that costs nearly four cents to manufacture. Brian Kruse, owner of Liberty Bell ...

WASHINGTON – The last-ever penny was minted in Philadelphia on Nov. 12. Plans to stop the production of the penny have been in motion since February, when President Donald Trump announced he had met ...

We aren’t here to praise the penny, but rather, to bury it. The penny, and its counterparts, have been vanishing all around the world as the cost of minting one far outweighs its value. But hackers ...

If you have one of these pennies in your piggy bank, you could be looking at a coin worth thousands or even millions of ...

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 ...