The MAGA meltdown after Tom Hanks played a racist Trump fan on Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary show now includes a ...

Coins aren't necessarily worth their face value, with some worth more than their cost of production and the penny famously ...

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

In 2017, the Currency Optimization, Innovation, and National Savings Act, would have suspended minting of the penny for 10 years while the Government Accountability Office studied whether the change ...

But does making cents really make no sense? Here’s what to know. The penny was one of the first coins the U.S. Mint made shortly after its establishment in 1792. Once larger and made of pure ...

These ultra rare 50p coins have all been released in the last 13 years, but are now worth a small fortune altogether. Here's ...

The good news, for those who dislike the penny, is that the coin is disappearing on its own. The US Mint has made about five billion pennies annually throughout the 2020s — down from about 11 ...

President Donald Trump wants the U.S. to stop making the coins. On Sunday, he posted on Truth Social that he's instructed the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury to stop minting the ...

one”) on the tails side – the U.S. Mint did indeed report in 2024 that each one cent coin costs 3.69 cents to make from copper and zinc. The penny’s manufacturing price therefore stands at ...