COVID, war, inflation, drug overdoses, the Yankees. Enough stress! Let's take a stress break. A slice of American history with *very* little science. And some pretty pictures too. Coins are ...

President Obama recently suggested the retirement of the penny as a way of reducing the federal budget, since it costs nearly two and a half times its face value to mint. While that may not happen any ...

(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Treasury Department says it will phase out production of new pennies early next year after President Donald Trump asked the agency to stop producing the coin that has been part ...

While today's generation are not the collectors of yore, a recent study indicated that 61% of Americans still have the urge to collect. Even a significant number of millennials and Generation Z teens ...

Pennies have been part of US culture for 230 years, so much so that they have inspired sayings such as ‘A penny for your ...

The Treasury Department said the last pennies were stamped with a special omega mark and will not go into circulation.

After President Trump called to end production of the penny, expert curators at the Money Museum in Colorado Springs are looking more closely at the historical, economic and cultural importance of the ...

For Long Islanders of a certain age, the penny is a reminder of their youth when candy came cheap, as did the wishes from ...

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