The president says he’s killed off production of money-losing pennies, but nickels cost even more money to make—and we'd need ...

Inflation has killed a lot of things. The penny might soon join the list.

Unlike living creatures or fads, coins don't become extinct due to ecological changes, predators, overexposure or boredom.

This has happened a lot in America over the past 250 or so years, with coins coming and going — sometimes in only a couple of years. For collectors, extinction can help push coin values up into ...

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 ...

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

Nowadays, the dime is made primarily of copper, while the 5-cent coin continues to be made from nickel. The value of the metal content was recently estimated at 11.18 cents as opposed to a cost of ...

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

Finally, President Donald Trump issued a directive we can all get behind. He told the U.S. Treasury to stop producing pennies ...

As part of his plan to cut alleged federal government waste, President Donald Trump is literally pinching pennies, ordering ...