Momentum for a penny purge is building as Trump takes aim at the coin. But for decades, Congress has balked at efforts to kill off the cent.

Elon Musk's DOGE may look to audit the U.S. government's gold reserves as conspiracy theories circulate about gold missing from federal depositories such as Fort Knox.

Canada did away with its one-cent coin more than a decade ago. It could offer insight into what the U.S. may be on the verge ...

Pennies make up more than half of the coins made at the Philadelphia mint, but coin demand has dropped by nearly 10 billion ...

People of a certain generation will remember the year-long bicentennial celebration of 1976, when the United States ...

Washington, DC, Feb. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Silver Medal became available for purchase directly from the United States Mint (Mint) on February 10, 2025, at ...

Launched in 2021 and continuing through 2025, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution Platinum Proof Coin Series reflects the five freedoms enumerated in the First Amendment to the ...

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

A group of 30 tourists stood in the foyer of t Mint on Tuesday afternoon, surrounded by the sparking marble sourced from ...

Ending production of the penny makes sense, a cross-section of area coin collectors and business owners told TribLive after a ...

President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he had ordered the Treasury secretary to stop producing pennies, saying minting each coin costs more than 2 cents.

If you have a rare "Buffalo" nickel from the Denver mint, it could be worth much more than it's face value, so look closely ...