News spoke with Edward Perry, the owner of Perry’s Coin Currency & Ammunition located at the Milton Flea Market.

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 ...

When the United States Mint was created in 1792, one of the first coins it made was the one-cent coin. The image on the first ...

President Trump called the minting of the coin a waste of money, reviving a longstanding debate about getting rid of the ...

President Trump said Sunday he had asked the U.S. Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, part of an effort to cut ...

There's no evidence the Mint ever claimed to have stopped penny production in April 2023. Its own data shows billions have been minted since then.

You don't need to be a coin collector to have piggy banks stashed around your house filled with quarters, dimes, nickels or ...

It was Theodore Roosevelt — a lifelong admirer of Abraham Lincoln — who ordered the U.S. Mint to introduce copper pennies ...

Ending production of the penny makes sense, a cross-section of area coin collectors and business owners told TribLive after a ...

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

The Lincoln Wheat Penny has been valued at an astonishing price, with some of the rarest versions of the coin rumored to be ...