The U.S. Treasury Department halted production of the penny on Nov. 12, ending more than 230 years of minting the nation’s smallest denomination and signalling the copper-colored coin’s gradual exit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. penny will no longer be minted, leaving many people wondering if it's time to get rid of extra coins or boost their ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Given rising metal prices, the pennies and nickels in your pocket are worth more melted down than at their face value -- and that has the government worried. U.S. Mint officials ...

We aren’t here to praise the penny, but rather, to bury it. The penny, and its counterparts, have been vanishing all around the world as the cost of minting one far outweighs its value. But hackers ...