The penny was first minted in 1793, per the auctioneers. America's smallest coins just brought in some big bucks. Pennies from the final minted set of the coin sold for over $16.76 million at auction ...

The penny never made much sense at the checkout line, but it sure made dollars at auction. Coin collectors paid more than $16 million for a piece of American history after the U.S. government ended ...

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History was hammered into copper one last time, as America’s final circulating pennies shattered auction records. Stack’s Bowers Galleries, a California auction house, announced that the 232 sets of ...

America's smallest coins just brought in some big bucks. Pennies from the final minted set of the coin sold for over $16.76 million at auction Thursday, according to Stack’s Bowers Galleries in ...