That jar of pennies on your dresser, the one you've been meaning to deal with for years, just became a small piece of American history. After more than two centuries of continuous production, the U.S.
After being part of American currency for over 230 years, the US Treasury has announced the end of the US penny in 2026. Economically, pennies no longer make sense. Every penny costs 3.7 cents to ...
The U.S. Mint stopped producing new 1-cent coins in November 2025. Here’s what to do with your spare change. Getty Images The penny is officially on its way out. The U.S. Mint stopped producing new ...
Change is coming to how we make change, thanks to the impending demise of the penny. That’s not an alternative fact: The U.S. Mint said in its annual report that each penny costs 3.69 cents to make.
It happened quietly, but it was historic. On November 12, 2025, a coin press at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia struck what will be the last circulating penny ever made in America. More than two ...
DETROIT -- Marie Shoulders of Detroit has a penny purse, a penny jar and a small penny pouch. As a self-confessed penny hoarder, she wasn't surprised to hear about the scarcity of the reddish-brown ...
Denver, Colorado, Production of coins at the United States Mint. A bin holds blank shapes that will be turned into pennies. (Photo by: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) In November ...
MOLINE, Ill. — The United States Mint ended the production of pennies in November 2025. As those coins enter circulation, they may be harder to find than in the past. "2025 was the last year that they ...
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - The U.S. Mint has stopped making pennies as of November 13, ending production of the one-cent coin that costs nearly four cents to manufacture. Brian Kruse, owner of Liberty Bell ...
The decision by the Trump administration to stop minting pennies that cost more than 2½ times their face value to make might be one of the most logical of the first year of the president’s second term ...
What, exactly, is the plan for all the pennies? Many Americans—and many people who, though not American, enjoy watching from a safe distance as predictable fiascoes unfold in this theoretical ...