The U.S. Treasury Department has taken a large step toward officially eliminating the one-cent coin, ordering its final batch ...

In Mexico, the conquistadors found life-size figures of men and women, great jars and pitchers, half pottery-half gold vases ...

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Super Bowl commemorative medals or coins are composed of a copper, silver, and gold composite. Copper is the base metal. Each ...

There is currently no official plan to recall pennies, and financial institutions are expected to continue accepting them. While pennies will remain legal tender, they will gradually disappear from ...

The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out, a Treasury ...

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Another issue in early U.S. Mint history was that the earliest silver coins were struck to .900 purity rather than the ...

ET By Chris Isidore and Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — The US Treasury is phasing out production of the penny and will soon stop putting new one-cent coins into circulation, the department said in a statement ...

The U.S. Treasury is discontinuing the penny, finalizing its last order for the coin due to its high production cost. Cash ...

Per the latest U.S. Mint report, it costs less than six cents to make a dime ($0.0576). To make a quarter, it costs about 15 cents ($0.1468), and nearly 34 cents for a half-dollar ($0.3397).

After more than two hundred years, the humble one-cent piece is on its way out due to production costs that significantly ...