That’ll be ten dollars and two cents,” says the clerk. That’s not much if you shop right. My Early Thursday wine and Swamp ...

Despite the president’s directive to end penny production, the lowly coin has lots of time left. Some 240 billion pennies are ...

Whether or not the penny will actually go away is yet to be seen, but there’s still time to begin a coin collection.

According to a brochure about the tour, the Mint buys strips of metal made from copper and nickel that are ... conveyor belts that take the blanks, planchets and coins from place to place, though ...

The last time the Mint stopped producing a coin ... blanks that the U.S. Mint turns into pennies. As the group points out, nickels are no bargain for taxpayers, either. “Since each nickel ...

But each nickel costs ... to provide the blanks used to make pennies. According to the latest annual report from the U.S. Mint, each penny costs 3.7 cents to make, including 3 cents for production ...

Nickels are made of 75% copper and 25% nickel, while pennies, despite their reputation of being a copper coin are copper-plated zinc, meaning they are only 2.5% copper and 97.5% zinc. While all ...