Coins become valuable for several reasons, ranging from their historical value to their metal content. In nearly all cases, ...

People of a certain generation will remember the year-long bicentennial celebration of 1976, when the United States ...

The next time you decide to put all your spare change into the nearest Coinstar machine, take a moment to sift through it.

Word on the street is that pennies cost more to manufacture than they are worth. Each penny costs 3.7 cents to manufacture. A ...

His company, Portland Mint, sells old pennies in bulk — 40,000 pounds (18,100 kilograms) at a time — to investors angling to ...

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

At that time, a half crown made for a sizable gift: eight of them made up one pound. The half crown was a coin in our old ...

When the United States Mint was created in 1792, one of the first coins it made was the one-cent coin. The image on the first ...

In the middle of Super Bowl LIX, President Donald Trump posted on social media that he was getting rid of the penny. Since ...

As part of his plan to cut alleged federal government waste, President Donald Trump is literally pinching pennies, ordering ...

President Donald Trump announced Sunday he’s ordered his administration to cease production of the 1-cent coin, whose buying ...

Per the latest U.S. Mint report, it costs less than six cents to make a dime ($0.0576). To make a quarter, it cost about 15 cents ($0.1468), and nearly 34 cents for a half-dollar ($0.3397).