Entertainer Rick Springfield has collected gold coins throughout his career and plans to sell the items in Stack's Bowers ...

What would happen if the U.S. got rid of the penny? It wouldn't be easy because there are 420 billion in circulation.

We pitch it, pinch it, squeeze and squander it. We stuff it in our loafers and offer it for our thoughts. A bad one always turns up and a pretty one is a splurge we heedlessly indulge. It’s the penny ...

In a final irony, news of the penny’s fate came out on the eve of Lucky Penny Day, no less! (Yes, there is such a thing, on May 23rd.) “We don’t have a lucky nickel day.

Since 1900, the price level in the United States has increased 25-fold—in other words, a penny in 1900 had about the same real purchasing power as a quarter does today.

The 2025 United States Mint (Mint) Uncirculated Coin Set will be available for purchase on July 17 at noon (ET). The set ...

In 2011, the U.S. lost $60.2 million making and circulating the coin and, in 2013, the U.S. Mint estimated that it cost 1.8 cents to produce each penny (not including distribution costs).