The U.S. Treasury is phasing out the penny due to rising production costs, signaling the end of an era and prompting economic ...

The federal government made its final order of penny blanks this month — the first step to end the production of the 1-cent ...

The following March, it produced its first batch of circulating coins - 11,178 copper pennies. The silver coins that soon ... Coins are made by stamping coin blanks with a metal tool called ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — US Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and will stop producing the coin when those run out.

An American silver coin dating back to the 17th century, before the United States was founded, has sold for a record-breaking $2.52 million at auction, eight years after it was discovered in an ...

The Mint, based in south Wales, said its coin making process is in three stages of making the blanks, making the dies and striking the coins. It begins when the appropriate metals are melted ...

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