RAYMORE, Mo. (KCTV) - Friday is National Lucky Penny Day, but the future for the penny is not looking so lucky. The U.S. Treasury confirmed Thursday it ordered its last round of pennies; after ...

In 2024, the Treasury incurred an $85.3 million seigniorage loss, which is the difference between the face value of the small coin and the cost to produce it, from minting over three billion new ...

But one penny has been hard to come by: the 2025 penny. “Everybody found out that the production is stopped, so everybody ran into the banks and started buying them,” Raines said.