Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. And yet I find myself mourning the humble penny, the smallest denomination of the world’s dominant reserve currency, the atom of ...

You might not think much about the spare change jingling in your pocket, but there's a particular penny that could be worth ...

Change is coming to how we make change – the penny will soon be no more. In early 2024, President Donald Trump ordered the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies. Why? His reasoning echoes a ...

The American penny has died at 232 following a long bout of high manufacturing cost and uselessness. The Treasury Department officially announced plans to end production of the penny back in May, and ...

Because while the U.S. Mint is no longer turning out pennies, there is no shortage of them in the country. The agency estimates there are at least 240 million pennies in “circulation” in the country.