The Lincoln one-cent coin could be scrapped, with Trump ordering the Treasury Department and U.S. Mint to stop producing the ...

President Trump has ordered the government to stop making pennies, calling the coins "wasteful." Would Arizona, a ...

Production of a half-cent coin stopped in 1857. Despite the state’s leading role in copper production, some Arizona lawmakers ...

President Trump solved the penny problem but now we have a nickel problem. But it's deeper than that. At the core, we have a ...

quarters and half dollars. Would major copper-producing areas be hurt by an end to penny production? Not by much. The metal has a bright future with rising demand, especially reflecting how well ...

Canada did away with its one-cent coin more than a decade ago. It could offer insight into what the U.S. may be on the verge ...

Rising copper costs triggered a penny shortage in 1974, when about half of the 62 billion pennies went out of circulation, according to estimates from U.S. Treasury officials. People kept them ...