Finally, President Donald Trump issued a directive we can all get behind. He told the U.S. Treasury to stop producing pennies ...

New England numismatists have conflicting feelings about the potential end to a coin that has survived more than 200 years of ...

Every penny costs 3.7 cents to manufacture and the U.S. Treasury lost $85.3 million in 2024 producing them, the U.S. Mint ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Treasury to stop minting the penny, reviving the debate over the future of America’s smallest coin.

For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful! Trump wrote on Truth Social.

The move by Trump is the latest in what has been a rapid-fire effort by his new administration to enact sweeping change.

The penny has been in the crosshairs of Trump officials since he took office. Last month, DOGE, the department run by Tesla ...

The president's halt on "wasteful" penny production could cause the value of the rarest one-cent coins to surge.

According to Jennifer Bushland in the February 2025 World Coin News article ... Such an example is currently available for sale at the United States Mint with the $2 “Lucky Panda” note. Although ...

Trump Coin then recovered to $63 before again falling to below $55. It had fallen further, to just over $44, by the time Trump was sworn in as president at the U.S. Capitol. Steven Goldstein is ...

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