Branstetter joined the meme coin market as an experiment, one he anticipated would fail. He wanted to show his followers that cryptocurrency, which he had always called “unicorn fart dust,” was ...

Indiana Jones owes a debt of gratitude to Scrooge McDuck, as the famous archaeologist likely would not even exist without ...

New England numismatists have conflicting feelings about the potential end to a coin that has survived more than 200 years of ...

Yes, the United States loses $85 million minting pennies. But what if we thought of the penny as a marketing asset, part of ...

With President Trump now seeking to end the penny’s production, coin shops in the Valley are preparing for life without the penny.

Factoring in the costs for the raw materials (zinc and copper) and the molding process, a penny worth 1 cent costs over 3 cents to produce. In the modern economy, a coin worth one cent isn't much ...

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 ...

Pennies make up more than half of the coins made at the Philadelphia mint, but coin demand has dropped by nearly 10 billion ...

Canada did away with its one-cent coin more than a decade ago. It could offer insight into what the U.S. may be on the verge ...

His company, Portland Mint, sells old pennies in bulk — 40,000 pounds (18,100 kilograms) at a time — to investors angling to profit on the copper that makes up 95% of the coins minted before 1983.

The penny farthing — named as such because the front wheel has the ratio of the penny coin and the rear wheel that of the farthing — didn't last long before the wheel was resized, a chain ...