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 ...

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 ...

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 ...