Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Treasury Department halted production of the penny on Nov. 12, ending more than 230 years of minting the nation’s ...

You might not think much about the spare change jingling in your pocket, but there's a particular penny that could be worth far more than one cent. It's hard to believe that something so ordinary ...

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, ...