Not making the cent coin, which the Mint says contains 2.5% copper and 97.5% zinc, also would free up more supply of zinc, Shippee said. The precious metal has become more in demand for use in ...

When the United States Mint was created in 1792, one of the first coins it made was the one-cent coin. The image on the first ...

When the United States Mint was created in 1792, one of the first coins it made was the one-cent coin. The image on the first ...

Unlike living creatures or fads, coins don't become extinct due to ecological changes, predators, overexposure or boredom.

And we have gotten rid of different denominations that have been retired, like the two-cent or my favorite is the trime, a three-cent piece. So cool. The Department of Defense ruled in 1980 that ...

As conversations continue on the production of the penny, outside of Congress, it’s getting some people into a new hobby, coin collecting ... he said. His two cents, if production does stop ...

You don't need to be a coin collector to have piggy banks stashed around your house filled with quarters, dimes, nickels or ...

It was Theodore Roosevelt — a lifelong admirer of Abraham Lincoln — who ordered the U.S. Mint to introduce copper pennies ...

The Denver Mint is one of just two federal mints that still produce circulating coins (the other is in Philadelphia). With 54 coin presses, the Denver Mint makes 40,500 coins per minute. The one cent ...

That being said, there are two sides to that coin… Heads, you save $$, but tails, you have to produce more nickles because of the roundup, which is even more expensive to produce. I hear 14 cents for ...