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The Trump administration says making cents doesn't make sense anymore. The US Mint has made its final order of penny blanks ...
The federal government made its final order of penny blanks this month − the first step to end the production of the 1-cent ...
The U.S. last week unveiled its plan to finally phase out the lowly penny. The Treasury Department has placed its last order ...
President Donald Trump says the small coin is "so wasteful" and should be abolished, with an estimated saving of $56m (£41m) ...
The penny’s run is coming to an end. First minted in 1792, it has been in circulation constantly. It wll be sunseted next ...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out, a Treasury Department official confirmed Thursday. This move comes as ...
Per the latest U.S. Mint report, it costs less than six cents to make a dime ($0.0576). To make a quarter, it costs about 15 cents ($0.1468), and nearly 34 cents for a half-dollar ($0.3397).
The impending “death” of the U.S. penny has spotlighted the coin’s own price tag — nearly 4 cents to make and distribute each ...
While there will still be over a billion pennies in circulation, no new cents will be joining their ranks for the first time ...
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The U.S. Department of Treasury said Thursday that it made its final order of blank pennies this month as its moves to end production of the one-cent coin.