Official maker of UK coins and the home of precious metals The Royal Mint has appointed a new chair. The Treasury has announced the appointment of Chris Walton as non-executive chair of the historic ...

The penny was one of the first coins the U.S. Mint made shortly after its establishment ... An estimated 240 billion are in circulation, according to a 2024 New York Times Magazine article.

Last year a New York Times Magazine story ... accomplish it has transformed the coin into a symbol of deeper rot," the piece noted. CNN has reported the US Mint in 2023 reported it circulated ...

There's no evidence the Mint ever claimed to have stopped penny production in April 2023. Its own data shows billions have been minted since then.

Representative Mark Amodei has helped to introduce a bill that would change how coins are minted in an effort to make it more ...

Every penny costs 3.7 cents to manufacture and the U.S. Treasury lost $85.3 million in 2024 producing them, the U.S. Mint ...

New England numismatists have conflicting feelings about the potential end to a coin that has survived more than 200 years of ...

His company, Portland Mint, sells old pennies in bulk — 40,000 pounds (18,100 kilograms) at a time — to investors angling to ...

President Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies ... year before. The mint also loses money on the nickel, with each of the $0.05 coins costing nearly ...

President Donald Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the rising cost of ...

The order to drop the corruption case against New York’s mayor presents her with a pivotal choice. By Benjamin Weiser and Jonah E. Bromwich The New York City comptroller’s office ...