The government loses nearly three cents on every penny it mints. On a nickel, it loses nearly nine cents. More nickels would mean steeper losses. America could kill both the penny and the nickel, the ...

Online chatter has lots of folks looking at their caches of coins in search of Lincoln wheat pennies they unrealistically hope are priceless.

Pennies will still be legal tender, but cash prices will soon be rounded up or down to the nearest nickel (which cost even more to produce relative to their value than pennies). There are about 114 ...

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.

Grandpa Brooks counted his pennies. He owned a little pharmacy in Chicago and he liked to sift through the till, hunting for interesting coins. Wheat pennies. Indian head pennies. Buffalo nickels. The ...

A young girl made an incredible discovery — a 700-year-old coin buried beneath the soil. But years later, what seemed like an innocent find took a shocking turn when police showed up at her door.

Do you own an old penny worth as much as a million dollars? Experts say it's highly unlikely. You may have seen one of many headlines blasted online lately about valuable pennies in circulation ...