Zinc and copper used to make a penny are worth almost four times the value of the coin. Bottom line: The penny is not ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

His announcement stressed the fact that taxpayers lose more than two cents every time another penny is minted.

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.

The government advised vendors to round cash transactions up or down to the nearest nickel ... up on her penny facts, she learned that the Defense Department banned the coin from overseas military ...