It costs nearly three and three-quarter cents to make a penny. You have to add labor and materials. It’s very expensive. They ...

That grimy, circular piece of copper and zinc known as the penny is no longer being produced, but the tiny coin is still getting the last laugh. Less than a month after the last one was minted on Nov.

After more than 230 years of steady service, the humble one-cent piece has retired — for now. The U.S. Mint pressed its final circulating penny earlier in November. While the penny remains legal ...

EMAIL TO NOT PERFORM ANY WORK RELATED TASKS. THE BUREAU HAS NOT COMMENTED ON THE CHANGES.### PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS HE HAS DIRECTED THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT TO STOP MINTING NEW PENNIES. THE PRESIDENT ...

FARGO — If we stop to pick them up, they’re supposed to give us good luck, but someday, there may be fewer of them to do so. The federal government has stopped minting the one-cent coin, or penny, ...