The last Lincoln penny was recently struck at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. Its removal from circulation marks just one of ...

February 12th marks 206 years since Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Kentucky. It's hard to fathom how the world has changed since then. To this day, Lincoln remains the most popular ...

For many Americans, hearing that the U.S. will stop producing pennies feels a bit surreal. This coin lived in pockets, jars, ...

Penny for your thoughts? Better raise the price. The US Mint brought more than two centuries of penny production to a close ...

The penny circulated our pockets for two centuries, and still there are 250 billion of them escaping from cash registers to ...

This tiny disc of zinc with just a smidge of copper has played an outsized role in our national (and international) discourse ...

With the end of the minting of any new pennies, some may be searching their change jars to see if there are valuable coins in their possession. […] ...

STONEWOOD – Penny for your thoughts? Don’t get John Hines started. “Yeah, it’s a little silly, I think,” the Stonewood, ...

They're in your couches and your loafers, but soon they may no longer be in your wallet. The penny has been minted in the ...

If the penny does officially fade out, its legacy will live on in jars, couch cushions and the familiar saying: “a penny for ...