Friday is National Lucky Penny Day, but the future for the penny is not looking so lucky. The U.S. Treasury confirmed ...

Although it's often referred to as the "Hobby of Kings," coin collecting doesn't discriminate between the rich and the poor ...

Per the latest U.S. Mint report, it costs less than six cents to make a dime ($0.0576). To make a quarter, it costs about 15 cents ($0.1468), and nearly 34 cents for a half-dollar ($0.3397).

The United States wouldn't be the first country to eliminate the coin, Turco said. Canada, for example, decided to phase out its penny in 2012. In the U.S., the Department of Defense stopped using ...

The 1992 Close AM and 1992-D Close AM (the “D” is for Denver) are some of the rarest and most valuable coins from the 1990s. According to the PCGS, the U.S. Mint adjusted the penny’s design ...

The federal government is pulling the penny from circulation, ending a historic run for the coin dating back to the country's ...

The cost of producing a penny has skyrocketed in recent years, reaching 3.69 cents, according to the Treasury Department.

The first one-cent coin was issued by a private mint in 1787. Benjamin Franklin designed it. One side, read “Mind Your ...

The U.S. Treasury Department says it will phase out production of new pennies early next year after President Donald Trump asked the agency to stop producing the coin that has been part of the ...

The Treasury Department said Thursday it’s planning to end production of the penny in an effort to phase out one of the ...

The federal government made its final order of penny blanks this month — marking the first step to end the production of the one-cent coin, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of the Treasury ...