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 ...

Here's where 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 ...

Now he has set his sights on the humble penny. The Lincoln one-cent coin could ... including the potential impact for Arizona, a major copper-producing state: Trump called the coins “wasteful ...

California Family Finds 2 Million Copper Pennies In Old Home The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is led by billionaire Elon Musk, posted on X last month that producing the penny is ...

In the U.S., the penny was one of the first coins made by the U.S. Mint after its establishment in 1792. When it was first produced, the coin was larger and made of pure copper. Today’s smaller ...

President Donald Trump announced plans to put a stop to producing pennies, which cost more than their value to make. "For far too long, the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us ...

On February 9, President Trump directed the US Treasury to halt new penny production due to rising costs, as part of efforts to reduce government spending. He criticized the minting's inefficiency ...