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 ...
President Trump said he wants the U.S. Treasury to stop making pennies. Can he do a penny drop? Does it need Congressional ...
Donald Trump isn’t the first to dream about getting rid of lowest denomination US coin, nor is the US the only country to see ...
President Donald Trump promised to penny pinch the federal budget if re-elected. Turns out he meant that literally.
Yes. At least three other countries have gotten rid of their smallest coin denominations: Canada, New Zealand and Australia. An uncirculated 1914 Lincoln penny minted in Denver could fetch up to $ ...
Here’s a list of now-extinct U.S. coin denominations as cited by the NCG: Depending on the condition, you might get anywhere from less than $100 to more than $2 million for some of the coins on ...
There’s actually precedent for that. In 2020, the U.K.’s Royal Mint said it would stop producing 2p coins (as well as £2 coins) for a decade because there was an overabundance of them. The coins ...