The penny has died. At the age of 232, the iconic coin’s final batch was minted in Philadelphia on Wednesday. But while the copper-plated-zinc currency is dead, it is not yet gone: the estimated 250 ...
It's the end of an era. After 233 years, the U.S. Mint will stop making cents. A Treasury Department spokesperson confirmed to USA TODAY that the government placed its last order of blank coins to ...
At the Lucky Penny on Anacapa Street in Santa Barbara, more than 100,000 pennies were used to line the walls of the building. After the U.S. Mint announced it will stop making pennies, the shop says ...
As of Nov. 12, 2025, the U.S. Mint has stopped penny production, making all thoughts cost a nickel each. Here's a look at what happened. Pennies were among the first coins introduced by the U.S. Mint, ...
Learn to love your coins. That’s the message from Kevin McColly, CEO of Coinstar, the company behind those coin-cashing machines you see in supermarkets. American consumers made only 16% of their ...
The federal government stopped minting new pennies last week, but as one reporter who has extensively followed the saga of the little copper-colored coin discovered, there does not seem to be much of ...
DETROIT — Marie Shoulders of Detroit has a penny purse, a penny jar and a small penny pouch. As a self-confessed penny hoarder, she wasn’t surprised to hear about the scarcity of the reddish-brown ...