Nickels also cost more to produce than ... “We remember our piggy banks and counting up all our pennies and then taking them in and getting a dollar bill or a couple of dollars from them ...

At some point, when Mark Patinkin accepts that coins – like flip phones – are no longer relevant, he’ll hit a bank to trade in his change for paper money. The truth is, it’s not just pennies that are ...

Phasing out the penny could result in needing to make more nickels, and the U.S. Treasury Department loses far more money on every nickel than it does on every penny.“Without the penny ...

In addition to pausing production of pennies for a decade, the bill also proposed modifying the metals that compose the nickel and shifting the $1 bill from paper to a metal coin. None of that ...

Whether or not the penny will actually go away is yet to be seen, but there’s still time to begin a coin collection.