If you’re like most of us, you don’t assume your coins will be worth a lot of money. At least, not more than 25 cents. But because coins have been minted in this nation for a long time, and because ...

The time of the penny is coming to a close. The U.S. Treasury Department placed its last order of blanks, flat metal discs used to make pennies, in late May. President Donald Trump told the mint to ...

President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. Treasury to stop minting pennies. That came after Elon Musk and DOGE made the coin a focus of negative attention for wasteful spending. There are currently 114 ...

Talk to end the penny’s production has been bandied about for decades among government officials and economists. However, the talk became policy when, over the weekend, President Donald Trump ordered ...

It’s the end of an era for America’s smallest coin. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will strike the nation’s final penny in a ceremonial minting on Wednesday, marking the official end of penny ...

You could soon be making a pretty penny. A coin collector is urging Americans to check their change drawers to see if they’re in possession of a 1992 Lincoln penny worth a whopping $26,000. The expert ...

The penny, the United States' iconic one-cent coin whose copper face and everyman symbolism endeared it to millions of Americans before it fell into change-drawer obscurity, died on Nov. 12, 2025. It ...

Talk to end the penny’s production has been bandied about for decades among government officials and economists. However, the talk became policy when, over the weekend, President Donald Trump ordered ...