I still have a few hundred coins in a bowl on my kitchen shelf – like that drawer of old electronics you don’t throw out ...

And the nickel and dime, too!” McArdle commented that if she sees a penny on the street, “I don’t bother to lean down and pick it up.” “It’s not worth my time,” Goins agreed.

It sure looks like the penny's days may be numbered, with 42 percent of Americans saying they support the ...

With an estimated 240 billion pennies in circulation, it’ll be a long time before we stop seeing them in the wild.

I can’t call heads or tails on whether we should stop minting the penny. There are two sides to every coin, right?

each penny costs 3.7 cents to make, including 3 cents for production costs, and 0.7 cents per coin for administrative and distribution costs. But each nickel costs 13.8 cents, with 11 cents of ...

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

Scrap the cent or keep it; I don’t care. But let the decision be based on sound reasoning, not on gaudy talking points that add nothing to the debate.

No need to nickel-and-dime it. One solution to the penny problem is to just use paper currency. When I was at military facilities in South Korea in the early 1950s, we were required to use scrips ...