The 2025 competition was the first to be played on a new maple skittle alley; the refurbishment a sign of the new lease of ...

Though it may not feel like it right now, the spring season will be here before you know it. By the time spring arrives, some ...

There's no evidence the Mint ever claimed to have stopped penny production in April 2023. Its own data shows billions have been minted since then.

When the United States Mint was created in 1792, one of the first coins it made was the one-cent coin. The image on the first ...

New England numismatists have conflicting feelings about the potential end to a coin that has survived more than 200 years of ...

It's one of the first coins made by the U.S. Mint since it was established in 1792. “For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so ...

Pennies were made of copper before 1962 and are currently made majority of zinc but with copper plating. Lincoln has been on the penny since 1909, and the penny was the first coin made by the U.S ...

Pennies make up more than half of the coins made at the Philadelphia mint, but coin demand has dropped by nearly 10 billion ...

President Trump said he wants the U.S. Treasury to stop making pennies. Can he do a penny drop? Does it need Congressional approval? What we know.

Back in 1857, Congress discontinued the half-cent and made the penny smaller to reduce the amount of copper needed, according to the U.S. Mint. In 2013, President Obama said: “Anytime we’re ...

That’s also far less than the 3.2 billon pennies it made in 2024 and the 4.1 billion it made in 2023 and 5.4 billion it made in 2022. Even if the Mint has to make only 850,000 additional nickels ...

President Trump claims he has instructed the U.S. Treasury Department to stop producing pennies, calling the 1-cent coin ...