For more than two centuries, the penny has quietly anchored American cash transactions as the nation's smallest unit of currency. First minted in 1793, the copper-colored coin is now reaching the end ...

This special auction of nearly 700 rare pennies brought a small fortune – nearly $16.8 million. Those coins, auctioned on Thursday, Dec. 11, by Stack’s Bowers Galleries, included the last 2025 ...

CLARE, Mich. (WNEM) – Area businesses are adjusting to a future without pennies, five weeks after the last penny was struck at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. Some are rounding cash purchases to the ...

(NEXSTAR) — You won’t find any new pennies in your pocket change in 2026, but you will spot redesigns on some of the coins minted in the U.S. In honor of the nation’s semiquincentennial (aka, its ...

SOUTH BEND, IN (WSBT) — No more pennies. The US Mint stopped making pennies in November. The last penny minted was sold for more than $16.7 million at auction. Now many businesses are not giving ...

Nearly everyone has a few old coins kicking around. But did you realize that a few cents from the 1950s could be worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars today and help you get ahead financially?

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 ...

The penny was first minted in 1793, per the auctioneers. America's smallest coins just brought in some big bucks. Pennies from the final minted set of the coin sold for over $16.76 million at auction ...

ShopRite is rounding cash transactions to the nearest nickel due to a national penny shortage. The policy applies only to cash payments where the customer does not have exact change. This change ...

More fast-food, convenience, and travel stop chains are rounding cash totals to the nearest nickel when pennies aren’t available Big retailers and grocers are doing it too, often rounding in the ...