Last year alone, some 21,000 youngsters ended up in emergency rooms throughout the United States after ingesting these candy-shaped disks--mostly pennies. New evidence indicates that swallowing pennies minted after 1981 poses an especially dangerous threat to children and pets. Newer pennies pose a...
With the coins sorted and organized by decades, dates, and mintmarks; review them one last time looking at condition. Any that stand out - displaying crisp detail - are judged individually. Breaking away from "common" status are those minted in the early teens, twenties and thirties decades....
All pennies have that distinctive copper color that looks so good when cleaned to a high shine. However, not all pennies are solid copper. Pennies minted before 1982 were 95 percent copper, whereas pennies minted after that year are 95 percent zinc with a thin copper plating. Unless you're ...
"For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!" Mr. Trump wrote in a post Sunday night on his Truth Social site. "I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies." The move by Mr...
The U.S. Mint produces billions of pennies each year (more than 3 billion last year), even though each onecosts 3.7 centsto produce. The price tag for the billions of pennies minted in the last year alone was more than $85 million. One potential downside to getting rid of pennies would...
Pennies are not only considered by many to be an affordable way to begin a coin collection, but they are among the oldest coins minted in the United States as they have been around since the onset of the U.S. monetary system. As a result, they have a rich history in both design and...
”, “Mark Weller, Americans for Common Cents spokesperson, claims that stores will not choose to round their prices down. He claims that what he calls the “rounding tax” will cost consumers $600 million per year.” So in reality is removing pennies from the United States currency system ...
“For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!” Trump wrote in a post Sunday night on his Truth Social site. “I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies.” ...
New copper pennies vanished from circulation in 1982 — 73 years after the first Lincoln penny was minted— and were replaced by zinc-coated ones. The old ones are more pliable and easier to stamp, making them hot items for kids at fun fairs. ...
As the Republican left New Orleans after watching the first half of the Super Bowl, hewrote to his social media platform, “For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the US Trea...