That cluttered junk drawer or old coffee can of change could be hiding a serious payday. Rare pennies from the 1940s, early wheat cents, silver quarters and quirky mint errors have all surfaced in ...

Pennies are quietly exiting American life, and the change is about to hit every junk drawer and coffee can stuffed with copper-colored coins. As the U.S. Mint winds down production, those jars are ...

The penny, the United States' iconic one-cent coin whose copper face and everyman symbolism endeared it to millions of Americans before it fell into change-drawer obscurity, died on Nov. 12, 2025. It ...

Copper pennies are worth more than others, but its illegal to melt pennies. Dec. 2, 2011— -- Joe Henry is on a first name basis with bank tellers across his hometown of Medford, Ore., scouring 15 ...

Change is coming, but it won't be in the form of a penny anymore. After 233 years of production, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that the production of the penny will come to an end, and soon, ...