The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it will begin winding down production of the penny, ending more than 230 years of ...

“You can go to your own bank or credit union and not pay any fee,” said Kimberly Palmer, personal finance expert at ...

Did I mention the recipe is only three steps? Pennies aren't just for tossing into wishing wells or dropping into the "take a penny, leave a penny" dish at the cash register. There's another take ...

Before you toss your old pennies in the coin jar ... According to CoinCollecting.com, the cent was 95% copper until copper was needed for war in 1943 and the penny’s composition changed to ...

Do you own an old penny worth as much ... The most valuable pennies, which are rare but possibly still in circulation, are 1943 copper Lincoln wheat pennies, a few of which were produced ...

New copper pennies vanished from circulation in 1982 — 73 years after the first Lincoln penny was minted — and were replaced by zinc-coated ones. The old ones are more pliable and easier to ...