In the middle of Super Bowl LIX, President Donald Trump posted on social media that he was getting rid of the penny. Since ...

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 is telling the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies, the iconic one-cent copper coin bearing the face of Abraham Lincoln. Shortly after departing Sunday's Super ...

WASHINGTON – Most copper mined in the U.S. comes from Arizona. But President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement that he ...

If you wonder why the penny is going the way of the dodo bird, try to find a penny gumball machine. A penny simply isn’t ...

Actually, no. The typical penny is around 97.5% zinc and only 2.5% copper. Since 1982, copper-plated pennies have been made primarily from zinc. Ironically, the other mainstream coins are ...