Could the penny soon be a thing of the past? Lawmakers in Congress from both sides of the aisle are proposing bills to halt ...

At a cost of nearly four cents to produce each penny, Oregon’s U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley says the United State Mint is ...

Online chatter has lots of folks looking at their caches of coins hoping to find Lincoln wheat pennies that they ...

Mark Weller is with Americans for Common Cents, a group that supports the penny and is also supported by a company that supplies zinc to the mint to make the coins. He says stopping production ...

Because of a surge in the price of zinc and copper, it now costs the U.S. Mint almost 2 cents to produce a penny. That has some in Congress seeking a change in the way the coins are made ...

Make Sense, Not Cents.” That’s the name of a bipartisan bill proposed by Senator Mike Lee to have the U.S. Mint stop producing pennies.

Because of a surge in the price of zinc and copper, it now costs the U.S. Mint almost 2 cents to produce a penny. That has some in Congress seeking a change in the way the coins are made ...

The 2025 penny with no mint mark ... were mistakenly produced from bronze (95% copper and 5% an alloy of tin and zinc ) and circulated.

Many Americans regard both nickels and pennies as more nuisance than currency. The typical household is sitting on $60 to $90 in neglected coins, enough to fill one or two pint-size beer mugs, ...

compared with an adjusted loss of a penny per diluted share a year earlier. The company’s realized copper price for the quarter was US$4.27 per pound, up from US$3.86 a year earlier, while it realized ...

Price said Teck's copper and zinc concentrate are sold in Asia and ... compared with an adjusted loss of a penny per diluted share a year earlier. Revenue for the quarter totalled $2.29 billion ...