It was Theodore Roosevelt — a lifelong admirer of Abraham Lincoln — who ordered the U.S. Mint to introduce copper pennies ...

New England numismatists have conflicting feelings about the potential end to a coin that has survived more than 200 years of ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Treasury to stop minting the penny, reviving the debate over the future of ...

The trouble with being the sort of person who gives credit where it's due is the sort of people you sometimes have to give ...

Congress, the Supreme Court, the central bank, the President's House — all national institutions that graced Philadelphia ...

The Lincoln Wheat Penny has been valued at an astonishing price, with some of the rarest versions of the coin rumored to be ...

It’s been debated for decades - now President Trump has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies. A historian says the move won’t diminish the legacy of Illinois’ favorite son, Abraham ...

The U.S. Mint produces more than 13 billion pennies each year, although the official name is the “cent” not penny.

The Memorial Penny (1959–2008) 1959: To celebrate Lincoln’s 150th birthday, the U.S. Mint replaced the wheat stalk design with a new reverse, featuring the Lincoln Memorial.

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

Greatness often comes quietly and obscurely. Abraham Lincoln, America’s 16th president, was born on Sunday morning Feb. 12, ...

Still, I can’t help but feel a little wistful. As a child, I remember searching for Lincoln in the memorial, picking up pennies for good luck—“Find a penny, pick it up, and all day you’ll ...