He uses them to operate more than 50 penny pressing machines throughout the Bay Area. The most popular one is located on Pier ...

"The United States Mint will continue to manufacture pennies while an inventory of penny blanks exists," the spokesperson said. The agency did not specify how long the inventory was expected to last, ...

So-called "wheat pennies" get their name from the back of the coin having stalks of wheat encircling the "One Cent" text.

Paulina Gonzalez-Brito, chief executive officer of the San Francisco-based nonprofit Rise Economy, said the marginalized ...

The decision to halt penny production didn’t come as a surprise to those in the coin-collecting world. “I really thought we’d ...

The U.S. Treasury Department made its last order of penny blanks last month. These 1-cent coins cost 3.7 cents to mint.

A spokesperson for the Treasury Department confirmed to USA TODAY that the government recently made its final order of penny ...

The federal government made its final order of penny blanks in May − the first step to end the production of the 1-cent coin, ...

The penny has been around "nearly as long as America ," said Oyin Adedoyin and Ken Thomas in The Wall Street Journal.

Got a piggy bank full of pennies? The small currency will soon be a thing of the past, but don't think you are sitting on a ...

After 233 years of production, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that the production of the penny will come to an end.

As the U.S. Mint prepares to produce the final pennies put into circulation early next year, the future of the copper-colored ...