Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Treasury Department halted production of the penny on Nov. 12, ending more than 230 years of minting the nation’s ...
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Why you should never spend a wheat penny you find in your change
Most of us barely glance at our loose change before tossing it into a jar or handing it back to a cashier. It's a habit ...
Fiscally, the mint didn’t have a logical choice. It was costing about 4 cents to mint a single penny, and that’s mostly due to production costs, not because the price of copper has soared. Since 1982, ...
HOUSTON -- Find a penny, pick it up - especially if it's this one. The rare 1943 copper wheat pennies are reportedly fetching $85,000 at auctions, according to CoinTrackers. CoinTrackers says there ...
That grimy, circular piece of copper and zinc known as the penny is no longer being produced, but the tiny coin is still getting the last laugh. Less than a month after the last one was minted on Nov.
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 ...
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