The Philadelphia Mint pressed its final circulating penny on Wednesday, bringing an end to the coin’s two-century run, The Associated Press reported. Death of the Penny U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach ...

History was hammered into copper one last time, as America’s final circulating pennies shattered auction records. Stack’s Bowers Galleries, a California auction house, announced that the 232 sets of ...

By Andrea Shalal PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach visited the Philadelphia Mint on Wednesday to strike the final five circulating one-cent coins or pennies, ending 232 years of ...

Nearly 700 of the last pennies produced in Philadelphia and Denver were sold in an auction last week for a total of $16.76 million, according to Stack's Bowers Galleries, a coin auction organizer ...

The final US pennies struck this week might be worth a fortune. Coin experts estimate the last pennies minted Wednesday could sell for as much as $5 million each when they hit the auction block in ...