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 ...

Penny for your thoughts? Better raise the price. The US Mint brought more than two centuries of penny production to a close last week, and the final coins off the presses could become a hot item among ...

This special auction of nearly 700 rare pennies brought a small fortune – nearly $16.8 million. Those coins, auctioned on Thursday, Dec. 11, by Stack’s Bowers Galleries, included the last 2025 ...

(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 ...

To those who argue that the U.S. penny had no value: some coin collectors beg to differ. In fact, they doled out millions for the final pennies circulated in the U.S. before the government ended the ...

Pennies from the final minted set of the coin sold for over $16.76 million at auction Thursday, according to Stack’s Bowers Galleries in California.

The U.S. Treasury Department has stopped producing the penny after more than 230 years. It now costs 3.69 cents to produce a single penny, which is significantly more than its face value. Pennies will ...