US President Donald Trump had reaffirmed that he would increase tariffs on China to 20 per cent and that the Mexico and ...

President Trump said he wants the U.S. Treasury to stop making pennies. Can he do a penny drop? Does it need Congressional approval? What we know.

Today’s 1-cent coins are made largely of zinc with copper ... Pennies, a coin purse staple since their production began in 1793, have become one of the latest targets of President Donald Trump ...

Although most people have never had one in their pocket change, the half-cent used to be a common coin in the US. It was actually one of the first coins ever minted and continued being released ...

Back in 1857, Congress discontinued the half-cent and made the penny smaller to ... the first pennies were put into distribution in 1793 — 11,178 of them — and were made of pure copper.