(NEXSTAR) — A quick check of your piggy bank or car cupholder may reveal a relatively standard stash of coins: pennies, dimes, quarters, a car wash token. While it may not amount to much at the outset ...

Wheat pennies may be rare, but certain coins are more valuable than others. Discover which pennies are worth the most and ...

The U.S. Treasury Department has stopped producing pennies. U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach struck the final circulating penny ...

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., who helped introduce the bill, has supported the penny production stoppage, calling the ...

Goodbye, old penny. The U.S. Mint stopped minting pennies earlier this month, a significant milestone after the coins lost their economic utility in the face of inflation and cost more to make than ...

In an era when investors obsess over gold prices by the ounce, a handful of battered copper coins are quietly rewriting the ...

Re: “Ode to the wheat penny” (Nov. 21, Opinion): Thank you, Kate Riley, for the lovely Editorial Notebook about the wheat pennies. I recall collecting them too as I sifted the payments each week from ...

It is time to break out the change jars and go treasure hunting folks. Earlier this year, PennLive shared that there are quarters floating around out there that could be worth up to $10,000, and those ...

The last U.S. penny was minted on Nov. 12, ending a 232-year string of penny production that dated to 1793, making it the nation’s oldest continuously made coin. But, with each penny costing nearly ...

The US government’s official phaseout of the penny has prompted a surge of online sales listing rolls of one-cent coins for hundreds or even thousands of dollars — but don’t be fooled, an expert says.

The U.S. Treasury Department has ended the production of the penny after 232 years. It cost nearly 3 cents to produce a single 1-cent penny. Americans can continue to spend pennies at retailers, which ...

UC Davis researchers engineered wheat that encourages soil bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen into plant-usable fertilizer. By boosting a natural compound in the plant, the wheat triggers ...