“You can go to your own bank or credit union and not pay any fee,” said Kimberly Palmer, personal finance expert at ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the Treasury to stop minting pennies because their production cost exceeds their value.

Got a piggy bank full of pennies? The small currency will soon be a thing of the past, but don't think you are sitting on a gold mine just yet.

“Those are just natural resources coming out of the Earth,” McColly said: Copper-plated zinc for pennies, copper-nickel alloys for nickels, dimes and quarters. His point: If Americans got ...

Writing on money is legal, with some exceptions A lot of people assume it's illegal to write on paper money, but that's not ...

Coinstar converts $3 billion in coins into spendable cash every year, one coin jar at a time. The average jar yields $58 in buying power.  Most of us don’t realize how much our coins are ...

(Intriguingly, the same is true of nickels.) Many Americans regard both nickels and pennies as more nuisance than currency. The typical household is sitting on $60 to $90 in neglected coins ...