Most people toss pennies into jars, forget them in couch cushions, or leave them on gas station counters without a second ...

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, ...

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 ...