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 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 ...

Retailers have been asking customers for exact change as a federal decision to cease penny production has reduced circulation ...

MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- The penny, long the most neglected coin in our change jars and couch cushions, is about to clock out for good. The U.S. Department of the Treasury recently confirmed it ...

In February, President Trump ordered the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies because the government was losing money on every coin — since it cost 3.69 cents to produce every penny, the ...

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, ...

While April 1st is more commonly known for April Fool's Day, it is also National One Cent Day -- and what these pennies are worth is no joke. According to Cointrackers.com, certain pennies that were ...

Well, it’s official. The U.S. Mint has pressed its last 1-cent coin. The penny, which began its impressive 232-year run at the mint in Philadelphia, ended production on Nov. 12, 2025, in the same ...

Unfortunately, making the one-cent coin really did cost a pretty penny. After 232 years in circulation — nearly as long as the United States of America has been a country — the final penny was minted ...

The final pennies to be minted in the U.S. sold for a record sum at Stack’s Bowers, with 696 one-cent coins collectively realizing over $16 million.