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

The Lincoln one-cent coin could be scrapped, with Trump ordering the Treasury Department and U.S. Mint to stop producing the ...

The highest price ever seen for a bronze Lincoln 1943-S penny was sold to collector Bob R. Simpson, co-chairman of the Texas ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Treasury to stop minting the penny, reviving the debate over the future of America’s smallest coin.

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

The U.S. Mint produces more than 13 billion pennies each year, although the official name is the “cent” not penny.

Trump has ordered the U.S. Treasury to "stop producing new pennies" as the cost of making new pennies is greater than the ...

The U.S. Mint said in fiscal 2024, it took about 3.69 cents to produce and distribute one penny, a 20.2% increase from 2023.

President Trump and Elon Musk want the U.S. penny gone. There are currently 114 billion pennies in circulation, but the economy will be OK without the coin.

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

Coins become valuable for several reasons, ranging from their historical value to their metal content. In nearly all cases, ...

A Missouri collector’s suggestion for legislation, sent to a new anti-waste government department, seeks to end production of ...