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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...