Despite childhood nostalgia associated with the coin, Rok, 70, said he agreed with Trump’s assessment that the penny simply costs too much. Many others agreed with him. USA TODAY spoke with ...

It costs more than 3 cents to make a 1-cent coin, and now the United States Treasury is finally doing something about it.

The federal government made its final order of penny blanks this month — marking the first step to end the production of the ...

Holt points to traditions of putting pennies in loafers, of rhymes like “See a penny, pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck,” of people who think an unexpected penny sighting could be a sign ...

I never found one, sadly. But I have a slight nostalgia for that activity. Molly: I have a less intense version of attachment to the penny, similar to what I have for good old-fashioned books ...

On the Facebook group of Pressed Penny Collectors, whose members seek out machines that flatten the coins into oval-shaped souvenirs, nostalgia has been negligible. “They’re going to stop ...