With the end of the United States penny old news at this point -- President Donald Trump's directive to stop minting the one-cent piece was executed in November 2025 -- it might be time to start ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Penny for your thoughts? Better raise the price. The US Mint brought more than two centuries of penny production to a close last ...
The American penny is history. The nickel might be next. The last pennies were pressed at the US Mint in Philadelphia on Wednesday, a victim of production costs higher than their worth coupled with ...
Fiscally, the mint didn’t have a logical choice. It was costing about 4 cents to mint a single penny, and that’s mostly due to production costs, not because the price of copper has soared. Since 1982, ...
The dies used to press the last pennies on display at the US Mint on November 12, 2025 in Philadelphia. These last pennies bear a special 'Omega' and will not be put in circulation, but will be ...
Denver, Colorado, Production of coins at the United States Mint. A bin holds blank shapes that will be turned into pennies. (Photo by: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) In November ...