You don't need to be a coin collector to have piggy banks stashed around your house filled with quarters, dimes, nickels or ...

It’s the wheat that could help you garner some green from collectors. The US could ditch the penny: What happened when Canada ...

Re “So long, penny! Trump orders U.S. to ditch 1-cent coin after decades of complaints” (Feb. 10): Consider this solution to ...

During World War II, pennies were made of steel to save copper for the war effort. However, a few were mistakenly made of bronze, and these are extremely rare and valuable. Made of 95% copper and ...

Gardeners are being urged to leave a 1p or 2p coin in their birdbaths in a bid to protect against a common problem - but only ...

so for one year they actually made steel pennies. I never found one, sadly. But I have a slight nostalgia for that activity. Molly: I have a less intense version of attachment to the penny ...

In the early 1940s, the U.S. used zinc-coated steel instead of copper to make pennies because the latter was needed for World War II. Today, wheat pennies are considered the most commonly ...

Yet more austerity came in another of America’s great wars. Pennies were briefly made of simple steel in 1943 to maintain a solid inventory of copper for the fight against Germany, Japan ...