By the 2010s, it cost 1.6 cents to make a penny (worth 1 cent) so they killed off the coin. While no Canadian pennies have been minted since then, it’s still technically legal tender. But there’s hardly any demand, and most stores round their prices up or down to 5 cents. Year...
The square pennies minted in the early 1920s bear an image of a kookaburra on one side. The penny from 1920 is the rarest and most collectable of them all. The coin was also made in a large number of different versions, referred to as “types”. The Type 9 was unusual in that the ...