President Trump wants to ditch the penny, a move that some experts say is long overdue. Advocates of the least-valuable coin say it should stick around. WSJ examines the question of whether or not it ...

When the United States Mint was created in 1792, one of the first coins it made was the one-cent coin. The image on the first ...

You don't need to be a coin collector to have piggy banks stashed around your house filled with quarters, dimes, nickels or ...

It was Theodore Roosevelt — a lifelong admirer of Abraham Lincoln — who ordered the U.S. Mint to introduce copper pennies ...

Every penny costs 3.7 cents to manufacture and the U.S. Treasury lost $85.3 million in 2024 producing them, the U.S. Mint ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Treasury to stop minting the penny, reviving the debate over the future of ...

The president could promptly end the production of new pennies, but phasing out the coin would take time and mean changes at ...

The president's halt on "wasteful" penny production could cause the value of the rarest one-cent coins to surge.

President Donald Trump announced Sunday he’s ordered his administration to cease production of the 1-cent coin, whose buying power is long past its prime.

Phasing out the penny could result in needing to make more nickels, and the U.S. Treasury Department loses far more money on ...

Jerry Petros, the owner of Alliance Coins and Jewelry in Alliance, said the U.S. should have dumped pennies years ago.

President Trump said he wants the U.S. Treasury to stop making pennies. Can he do a penny drop? Does it need Congressional approval? What we know.