(NEXSTAR) — The U.S. appears poised to ditch the penny, with recent reports saying the U.S. Treasury made its final order of penny blanks in May. With no new blanks on the way, the U.S. Mint is ...
DETROIT -- Marie Shoulders of Detroit has a penny purse, a penny jar and a small penny pouch. As a self-confessed penny hoarder, she wasn't surprised to hear about the scarcity of the reddish-brown ...
The penny's story began in 1792 with the Coinage Act that created the U.S. Mint and established America's decimal currency system. For more than 230 years, the one-cent coin survived wars, depressions ...