After nearly two centuries, the U.S. government is ending the production of the penny. The U.S. penny discontinuation means that, in time, these coins that you grew up with will no longer be in ...

(Picking up a penny from a sidewalk and putting it in your pocket pays less than the Federal minimum wage, if you take more than 4.9 seconds to do it.) The U.S. Army stopped using pennies on its ...

PORTLAND - Robert Owen Penny, known to many as “BP”, passed away at the age of 75 on May 24, 2025, ... PORTLAND – Robert Owen Penny, known to many as “BP”, passed away at the age of 75 ...

“[T]he United States Mint will continue to manufacture pennies while an inventory of penny blanks exists,” a Treasury Department spokesperson told NBC News on Thursday, with the last of the ...

Lee and Sen. Merkley. (NEXSTAR) — Grab your coin purse: The U.S. may be on the verge of ditching its penny. The U.S. Treasury is reportedly gearing up to stop putting new one-cent coins into ...

The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out, a Treasury Department official confirmed Thursday. An immediate annual savings of $ ...

The US Treasury has begun phasing out the penny, it said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal late last week. The department made its final order of penny blanks earlier this month ...

He is not alone in forecasting a future for the penny, the nickel, and their more profitable kin. “We’ve been much slower than parts of Europe and Asia to adopt mobile payments and contactless ...

The U.S. Treasury will strike its last penny early next year, ending a 233-year production run, yet the copper-colored coin will keep rattling in cash drawers for years as retailers gradually ...