Most people toss a penny without a second glance. Yet sitting inside old coin jars, forgotten desk drawers, and inherited collections, there may be a one-cent piece that collectors and auction houses ...

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 ...

Most people toss pennies into jars, forget them in couch cushions, or leave them on gas station counters without a second ...

Collectors were in for a penny, in for hundreds of thousands at a recent coin auction in California. The final pennies to ever be minted in the U.S. sold for a record sum at Stack’s Bowers Galleries ...

(CNN) - A few historic pieces of copper turned out to be worth much more than their weight in gold. The last pennies to ever be minted in the U.S. just sold for more than $16 million, according to ...

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, ...