The impending “death” of the U.S. penny has spotlighted the coin's own price tag — nearly 4 cents to make and distribute each ...

The agency did not specify how long the inventory was expected to last, so it's unclear exactly when pennies will no longer ...

Coinstar converts $3 billion in coins into spendable cash every year, one coin jar at a time. The average jar yields $58 in ...

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

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 ...

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

The U.S. Mint made its final order of penny blanks and said it plans to halt the production of pennies once those run out, ...

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).

The US Mint will stop producing pennies due to high costs, following a directive from Donald Trump. The move is expected to ...