Got a piggy bank full of pennies? The small currency will soon be a thing of the past, but don't think you are sitting on a gold mine just yet.

The government loses nearly three cents on every penny it mints. On a nickel, it loses nearly nine cents. More nickels would ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the Treasury to stop minting pennies because their production cost exceeds their value. (Intriguingly, the same is true of nickels.) ...

Pennies will still be legal tender, but cash prices will soon be rounded up or down to the nearest nickel (which cost even ...

Online chatter has lots of folks looking at their caches of coins hoping to find Lincoln wheat pennies that they ...

spokesman for the Professional Numismatists Guild (PNG), a nonprofit organization composed of many of the nation's rare coin experts. "Only a few Lincoln cents dated 1909 to 1958 with the wheat ...

The Department of the Treasury is exploring ways to reduce the cost of producing nickels, which cost a pretty penny, ahead of the possible elimination of the iconic Lincoln-faced 1-cent coin.

The most valuable pennies include the 1943-D Lincoln wheat penny, valued at $2.3 million; the 1944-S steel wheat penny, worth $1.1 million; the 1793 strawberry leaf cent, worth $862,500 ...

The 2009 penny is more than just spare change—it’s a coin with historical significance and collectible appeal. Issued to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth and the ...

A PNG student races home from school to tell her ... She was also thinking about teaching. But she learns that Penny Wong and Australian bureaucrats at DFAT want her to get a degree in gender ...