Every penny (and nickel, dime and quarter) helps. By Michael Miller . June 3, 2011 12 AM PT . Facebook; Twitter; Show more sharing options; Share Close extra sharing options. Facebook; Twitter; Email; ...

(A dime still costs less than a nickel to fashion, and a quarter costs less than a dime.) Not that penny-ante irony is giving Uncle Sam second thoughts: the undaunted Mint is on track to produce 8 ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government is losing money on the penny, the Wall Street Journal reports. The paper said it cost 1.5 cents to produce each penny in the 2016 fiscal year. U.S. Mint and the ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government is losing money on the penny, the Wall Street Journal reports. The paper said it cost 1.5 cents to produce each penny in the 2016 fiscal year. U.S. Mint and the ...

So the penny, nickel and dime were all useful, valuable coins — 100 years ago. ... By 1973 the dollar’s purchasing power was only one-quarter of what it was in 1914.

Each dime costs nearly 6 cents ($0.0576) to make and distribute. That represents more than half of the 10 cent coin's buying power. And the cost of producing and distributing the dime increased 8. ...

Since Jan. 19, 1998, I’ve found $971.05. I know this because, for 20 years now, I’ve been keeping track of every penny, nickel, dime and quarter that I’ve found discarded on the ground. As ...

A nickel is worth half as much as a dime but costs twice as much to mint. A penny, which used to cost less than 1 cent to make, now costs 3.7. In 2011, a quarter was cheaper to make than a nickel ...

Pennies sit in a bin at the U.S. Mint in Denver on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007. David Zalubowski-AP WASHINGTON (WLS) -- The U.S. government is losing money on the penny, the Wall Street Journal ...