People gathered in the nation’s capital on Saturday to pay their respects to the penny. A mock funeral, hosted by financial management platform Ramp, was held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, ...

The penny received a “funeral” on Saturday, attended by mourners and Abraham Lincoln impersonators outside the Lincoln Memorial, after the U.S. Mint discontinued the coin last month. Hundreds attended ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WUSA) – Hundreds of people gathered near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. over the past weekend to mourn the death of the penny. The U.S. Mint in Philadelphia stopped minting ...

The mourners had taken their seats. Many were dressed in black. Others wore veils and large hoop skirts, reminiscent of Victorian-era fashion. When the clock struck 1:01 p.m. (a time, organizers said, ...

People may be inspired to collect coins after all the recent discussion on pennies, long-time collectors said.