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 ...

The Lincoln one-cent coin could be scrapped, with Trump ordering the Treasury Department and U.S. Mint to stop producing the ...

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

Pennies make up more than half of the coins made at the Philadelphia mint, but coin demand has dropped by nearly 10 billion ...

The penny, whose face value is a modest 1 cent, cost about 3.7 cents to make last year. They aren’t the only expensive coin.

Per the latest U.S. Mint report, it costs less than six cents to make a dime ($0.0576). To make a quarter, it cost about 15 cents ($0.1468), and nearly 34 cents for a half-dollar ($0.3397).

It is unclear whether Trump has the power to unilaterally eliminate the lowly one-cent coin. Currency specifications — ...

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

Can he do that? It’s not clear. But President Trump is right when he says that pennies “literally cost us more than 2 cents.” ...

The fashion world pondered the future of the iconic shoe after learning that a presidential order might eliminate the penny.

Pennies were the most common coins produced by the Mint last year, followed, in order, by quarters, dimes, nickels and then half-dollars. Do other U.S. coins cost more to make than they're worth?