The United States wouldn't be the first country to eliminate the coin, Turco said. Canada, for example, decided to phase out its penny in 2012. In the U.S., the Department of Defense stopped using ...

The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out ...

The U.S. Treasury Department says it will phase out production of new pennies early next year after President Donald Trump asked the agency to stop producing the coin that has been part of the ...

The U.S. Mint on Thursday said it has ordered the last batch of pennies after President Donald Trump ordered the elimination ...