Around 4.1 billion pennies were circulated in 2023, costing the American taxpayers over $179 million. In 2024, $85 million.

Now he has set his sights on the humble penny. The Lincoln one-cent coin could be scrapped, with Trump ordering the Treasury Department and U.S. Mint to stop producing the coins. That followed an ...

The fashion world pondered the future of the iconic shoe after learning that a presidential order might eliminate the penny. By Misty White Sidell It was a question begging to be asked after ...

If your bill comes to 98 cents and you hand the seller a dollar, you expect to get your two cents back. Inflation hit ...

“Coins are a work of art,” Dave Simmons, Bondie’s Antique Mall manager, said. “They’re just sculpted, really beautiful items. Also, it’s history.” Simmons has been collecting coins ...

President Donald Trump 's decision that the U.S. Department of the Treasury will stop minting new pennies could cost jobs in the heavily Republican county they are currently partly produced in, ...

The penny has been around for almost as long as the United States itself. It survived the Civil War, the Great Depression and decades of politicians complaining that it wasn’t worth the trouble.

President Trump announced Sunday that he is telling the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies, ending a 233-year run of the 1-cent coin. The penny, one of the first coins made by the U.S ...

President Donald Trump is telling the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies, the iconic one-cent copper coin bearing the face of Abraham Lincoln. Shortly after departing Sunday's Super ...

Phrases such as penny for your thoughts or stop being a penny-pincher may have to change — pun intended. President Trump said Sunday he told the U.S. Treasury Department to stop minting pennies.

Can he do that? It’s not clear. But President Trump is right when he says that pennies “literally cost us more than 2 cents.” By Yan Zhuang and Erica L. Green Erica L. Green is a White House ...