Re “So long, penny! Trump orders U.S. to ditch 1-cent coin after decades of complaints” (Feb. 10): Consider this solution to ...

President Trump has ordered the U.S. Treasury to stop producing pennies due to high minting costs; this may lead to rounding ...

With President Donald Trump having instructed the Treasury to cease production of the U.S. penny due to cost concerns, as ...

Amid the recent flurry of Trump's often contentious executive orders, he announced Sunday night that he'd ordered Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to halt the production of the 1-cent coins ...

Have you actually used a penny to make a purchase recently? Have you even thought about them at all beyond getting them in your change or finding them in your couch cushions? Well, economists sure ...

The penny is under attack, and its chances of survival are uncertain. In February 2025, President Trump ordered the U.S. Treasury to stop minting the little zinc and copper coins to save on costs.

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

Canada, Brazil and some other countries have already killed their versions of the 1-cent coin, and the U.S. Mint says its output of all types of coins has dropped from about 15 billion produced ...

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. Advocates for ditching the penny cite ...

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 ...

(SOUNDBITE OF COINS SHIFTING) SAGER: Here's pennies ... This is 1859 - nice Indian-head penny, says 1 cent. LIMBONG: On the other side, it's got what looks like a woman wearing a headdress. It hits me ...

Entrepreneur Chupi Sweetman is the founder of eponymous jewellery brand Chupi. The 41-year-old was raised in west Wicklow by ...