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The U.S. Treasury announced that, by early next year, it will cease making new pennies, which cost almost four times to make what they are actually worth. But Faith Salie says that, while phasing out ...
There has long been broad bipartisan agreement that the penny has outlived its usefulness. Yet multiple efforts by both ...
As a cost-saving measure, President Trump has ordered the U.S. Mint to stop producing pennies, because they cost about four cents to manufacture. Without pennies, we can save $85 million annually that ...
Goodbye, pennies … hello, cash! If you have any of these pennies in your coin jars, here's exactly what you need to do.
After more than 200 years, the U.S. bids adieu to the penny, citing high production costs and shifting economic practices.
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.
The government loses nearly three cents on every penny it mints. On a nickel, it loses nearly nine cents. More nickels would ...
Trump told the Treasury Department to stop making pennies, citing production costs. What should we do with the pennies we ...
Online chatter has lots of folks looking at their caches of coins hoping to find Lincoln wheat pennies that they ...