Rare U.S. coins are still slipping through cash registers and coin jars, and some of them can be worth far more than their ...

We aren’t here to praise the penny, but rather, to bury it. The penny, and its counterparts, have been vanishing all around the world as the cost of minting one far outweighs its value. But ...

As talk of retiring the penny grows louder, millions of Americans are quietly sitting on small fortunes in loose change. If ...

Certain pennies are more valuable than others. A copper penny from 1943 is valuable. At this time, steel was used to make pennies instead of copper because copper was needed for the war effort. Some ...

The 1863 Indian Head Penny is a classic Civil War–era small-cent issue struck at the Philadelphia Mint. Made from a ...

A rare copper penny found by a 16-year-old in 1943 will be auctioned off for thousands In 1947, then 16-year-old Don Lute Jr. of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, found a rare copper penny in change he got ...

Don Lutes Jr. kept the 1943 copper penny he stumbled upon in his high school cafeteria seven decades ago in a safe behind a wall in his Massachusetts home. All US pennies were supposed to be made of ...

Copper pennies are worth more than others, but its illegal to melt pennies. Dec. 2, 2011— -- Joe Henry is on a first name basis with bank tellers across his hometown of Medford, Ore., scouring 15 ...