The U.S. Mint has officially stopped making pennies – but that doesn’t mean some aren’t worth more than one cent.   In fact, ...

You may have seen one of the many headlines about valuable pennies in circulation. "Lincoln Wheat Penny Worth $124M You Could ...

Auction house Stacks Bowers sold three U.S. pennies (one made of 24K gold) for 26 million times their cash value.

The sale of the three-coin sets that included the final Lincoln cents made for circulation as well as a special gold cent ...

FARGO — If we stop to pick them up, they’re supposed to give us good luck, but someday, there may be fewer of them to do so. The federal government has stopped minting the one-cent coin, or penny, ...

Goodbye, old penny. The U.S. Mint stopped minting pennies earlier this month, a significant milestone after the coins lost their economic utility in the face of inflation and cost more to make than ...

The last Lincoln penny was recently struck at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. Its removal from circulation marks just one of many changes that American currency has undergone since 1792, when the ...

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Alas, dear penny, you served us well. We picked you up, you gave us luck. We gave you to others in exchange for their thoughts. And remember when we pondered whether dropping you from the Empire State ...

The American penny is history. The nickel might be next. The last pennies were pressed at the US Mint in Philadelphia on Wednesday, a victim of production costs higher than their worth coupled with ...

KIMBERLY, Wis. (WBAY) - The U.S. Mint is closing the book on one of America’s smallest but most familiar coins. After more than 230 years in circulation, the penny is officially retired. With the U.S.