Perched atop a penny farthing while playing classical guitar, Simon Weir is something of a local celebrity in Canberra — and now he's preparing to compete at the National Penny Farthing Championships.

Cease production of the penny, let collector's gobble up what's left of the 1 cent coin, and there will still be one ...

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 ...

Congress, the Supreme Court, the central bank, the President's House — all national institutions that graced Philadelphia when it was the nation's capital in the 1790s — left long ago for Washington, ...

Every penny costs 3.7 cents to manufacture and the U.S. Treasury lost $85.3 million in 2024 producing them, the U.S. Mint ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Treasury to stop minting the penny, reviving the debate over the future of ...

Around 4.1 billion pennies were circulated in 2023, costing the American taxpayers over $179 million. In 2024, $85 million.

The lowly penny, the forgotten mainstay of coin jars and car cupholders everywhere, may soon be no more. President Donald ...

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Two decades ago, Raymond Lombra, a now-retired economist at Penn State University, warned of a "rounding tax" that could amount to at least $600 million a year if merchants were to routinely add a ...