The penny, the United States' iconic one-cent coin whose copper face and everyman symbolism endeared it to millions of Americans before it fell into change-drawer obscurity, died on Nov. 12, 2025. It ...

Sorry, penny pinchers, you just shortchanged. The United States ended production of the penny this week, more than two centuries since the one-cent coin first went ...

A stray penny sits next to machinery at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 12, 2025. A stray penny sits next to machinery at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on ...

DENVER — Twenty machines each churn out 750 shiny pennies a minute inside the U.S. Mint’s stately 1904 building in the heart of this city’s downtown. Across the street, five of the coins sit inside a ...

The penny has finally reached its expiration date. After years of debate, the U.S. Treasury confirmed that the Mint will stop producing new one-cent coins once existing blanks run out, expected by ...

Talk to end the penny’s production has been bandied about for decades among government officials and economists. However, the talk became policy when, over the weekend, President Donald Trump ordered ...

Entering the Munson Museum in Utica, N.Y., you find yourself in an immense atrium. Opposite the entrance hangs a painting that not only “holds the wall,” to use a bit of studio jargon; its swirling, ...