Sorry, penny pinchers, you just shortchanged. The United States ended production of the penny this week, more than two centuries since the one-cent coin first went ...

With the cost of producing the nickel over thirteen cents and the cost of a penny costing over three cents, wouldn't it make more sense to get rid of the nickel? The government would save more money ...

Are nickels and dimes next? Nickels? Maybe. Dimes, maybe not. According to the U.S. Mint, the nickel costs nearly 14 cents to make, nearly triple its market value. For nearly two decades, both the ...