The U.S. Treasury Department halted production of the penny on Nov. 12, ending more than 230 years of minting the nation’s smallest denomination and signalling the copper-colored coin’s gradual exit ...

You might not think much about the spare change jingling in your pocket, but there's a particular penny that could be worth ...

Fiscally, the mint didn’t have a logical choice. It was costing about 4 cents to mint a single penny, and that’s mostly due to production costs, not because the price of copper has soared. Since 1982, ...

Most of the time, a penny is worth just one cent, but in the case of the most valuable pennies, they can be worth thousands or even millions of dollars. If you're sorting through your pocket change, ...

Copper pennies are worth more than others, but its illegal to melt pennies. Dec. 2, 2011— -- Joe Henry is on a first name basis with bank tellers across his hometown of Medford, Ore., scouring 15 ...