In 1782, as the Revolutionary War was winding down and peace talks were happening in Paris, Gen. George Washington came up ...

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We went metal detecting in an amazing farm field and we found so much in one area of the field from coins, confederate relics, to Native American artifacts, and much more! The History Seekers crew ...

In the middle of Super Bowl LIX, President Donald Trump posted on social media that he was getting rid of the penny. Since ...

New England numismatists have conflicting feelings about the potential end to a coin that has survived more than 200 years of ...

It was Theodore Roosevelt — a lifelong admirer of Abraham Lincoln — who ordered the U.S. Mint to introduce copper pennies ...

Many of my students cite carrying around “nuisance coins” like the penny as a reason for switching away from using cash. The good news, for those who dislike the penny, is that the coin is ...

Every penny costs 3.7 cents to manufacture and the U.S. Treasury lost $85.3 million in 2024 producing them, the U.S. Mint ...

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

President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he had ordered the Treasury secretary to stop producing pennies, saying minting each coin costs more than 2 cents.

The president could promptly end the production of new pennies, but phasing out the coin would take time and mean changes at ...