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 ...

Most people toss pennies into jars, forget them in couch cushions, or leave them on gas station counters without a second ...

HOUSTON -- Find a penny, pick it up - especially if it's this one. The rare 1943 copper wheat pennies are reportedly fetching $85,000 at auctions, according to CoinTrackers. CoinTrackers says there ...

(CNN) - A few historic pieces of copper turned out to be worth much more than their weight in gold. The last pennies to ever be minted in the U.S. just sold for more than $16 million, according to ...

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, ...

While April 1st is more commonly known for April Fool's Day, it is also National One Cent Day -- and what these pennies are worth is no joke. According to Cointrackers.com, certain pennies that were ...

PHILADELPHIA — The last minted pennies sure cost a pretty penny. On Thursday, a three-coin set of the final pennies minted for circulation sold at auction for $800,000. Another of the sets sold for ...

The U.S. Treasury Department halted production of the penny on Nov. 12, ending more than 230 years of minting the nation’s smallest denomination and signalling the copper-colored coin’s gradual exit ...