If you’ve been counting your pennies and going thrift shopping this holiday season, you may notice a small change at the register. Clothes Less Traveled, the nonprofit thrift shop with locations in ...
At the Lucky Penny on Anacapa Street in Santa Barbara, more than 100,000 pennies were used to line the walls of the building. After the U.S. Mint announced it will stop making pennies, the shop says ...
The U.S. Treasury Department has stopped producing the penny after more than 230 years. It now costs 3.69 cents to produce a single penny, which is significantly more than its face value. Pennies will ...
Nancy Forster-Holt does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Outside the Denver Mint earlier this week, school groups and tourists waited in the sunshine, lined up against the side of the downtown building for a chance to see where America's money is made. But ...
Alas, dear penny, you served us well. We picked you up, you gave us luck. We gave you to others in exchange for their thoughts. And remember when we pondered whether dropping you from the Empire State ...
Melissa McCart is the lead editor of the Northeast region with more than 20 years of experience as a reporter, critic, editor, and cookbook author. Evil Katsu, the East Village sandwich shop at 435 ...
The author reflects on the sentimental value of pennies and a family coin collection. Pennies evoke memories of childhood, family traditions, and changing attitudes toward coins. The US will mint its ...
As Dolly Parton once sang, “If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the riches my pockets would hold.” These days, though, even Dolly’s pockets would be a little lighter. As ...
The American penny is history. The nickel might be next. The last pennies were pressed at the US Mint in Philadelphia on Wednesday, a victim of production costs higher than their worth coupled with ...
What, exactly, is the plan for all the pennies? Many Americans—and many people who, though not American, enjoy watching from a safe distance as predictable fiascoes unfold in this theoretical ...