The federal government is winding down production of the penny coin following a bipartisan effort to nix the ...

The federal government made its final order of penny blanks this month — marking the first step to end the production of the ...

Although it's often referred to as the "Hobby of Kings," coin collecting doesn't discriminate between the rich and the poor ...

The United States wouldn't be the first country to eliminate the coin, Turco said. Canada, for example, decided to phase out its penny in 2012. In the U.S., the Department of Defense stopped using ...

Per the latest U.S. Mint report, it costs less than six cents to make a dime ($0.0576). To make a quarter, it costs about 15 cents ($0.1468), and nearly 34 cents for a half-dollar ($0.3397).

Treasury Department will take pennies out of circulation next year. Costly nickels, however, could cancel out savings.

You can now own a $1 gold coin celebrating one of America’s most revolutionary achievements: the NASA Space Shuttle program.