The Lincoln Wheat Penny has been valued at an astonishing price, with some of the rarest versions of the coin rumored to be ...

There used to be a saying — “pennies make dimes and dimes make dollars” — that stressed the importance of saving your money (the phrase later showed up in a country song). Today, some ...

The U.S. Mint produces more than 13 billion pennies each year, although the official name is the “cent” not penny.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been ordered to cease production of the one-cent coin known as the penny, President ...

With few exceptions, copper coins in the U.S. mean one-cent pennies — usually those featuring Abraham Lincoln. The most valuable Lincoln penny is worth $2 million on the collectibles market ...

Some rare coins have reached a certain level of fame because of their backstories. An example is the 1943 copper Lincoln penny, which was mistakenly minted during a World War II copper shortage ...