Should you cash in your pennies? The small currency will soon be a thing of the past, but don't think you are sitting on a ...

But older pennies are worth their weight in copper. Pennies made before 1982 are worth about 3 cents a piece. Although you can sell them to a coin shop, you can’t melt them down.

These coins have stalks of wheat encircling the "One Cent" text on the back of the coin. The wheat was eventually phased out and replaced with an engraving of the Lincoln Memorial, USA TODAY reported.

The U.S. Treasury Department has taken a large step toward officially eliminating the one-cent coin, ordering its final batch of penny blanks in May. But what happens when there are no new pennies ...

The penny’s days are officially numbered. The U.S. Treasury Department has placed its final order for penny blanks—the metal discs that are eventually minted into one-cent coins—marking the ...

The nearly 4 cent price tag is up 20.2% from the Mint's 2023 report, when a penny cost just over 3 cents. Cost of the nickel Each nickel costs nearly 14 cents ($0.1378) to make and distribute.

The one-cent coins will still be legal tender. There are more than 100 billion pennies in circulation but many are gathering dust in change jars and forgotten pockets. July 14, 2025.

That's also more than half of the 25 cent coin's buying power today. The quarter's unit cost has increased by 26.2% since the Mint's 2023 report, when its price tag was closer to 12 cents.

One-cent coins called "large cents" were produced in the U.S. through 1857. However, they were not the smallest denomination in circulation. From 1793-1857, half-cent pieces were minted, ...

That’s $1 per one-cent coin or 100 times its face value. Some coin collectors have valued the penny at $2. It's unclear how high and how fast the 2025 one-cent coin may rise.

Cost of the penny. Each penny costs nearly 4 cents — or $0.0369, to be exact — for the U.S. Mint to make and distribute. In total, America’s coin manufacturer said it shipped more than 3.17 ...

New legislation - the Common Cents Act - was introduced this week to eliminate the production of pennies, which the Treasury says cost 4 times their value to make.