Whether or not the penny will actually go away is yet to be seen, but there’s still time to begin a coin collection.

PHOENIX — As the "Copper State," Arizona has deep ties to the cent. With President Trump now seeking to end the penny’s production, coin shops in the Valley are preparing for life without the ...

Copper prices jumped by more than 5% in New York — leaping further above other global benchmarks — as US President Donald Trump suggested imports of the metal could be subject to a 25% tariff.

The women’s clothier has locations in Charleston, Greenville and elsewhere. Now it has opened a new storefront in a well-known Columbia district.

President Donald Trump talks of big change in his second term of office. But he’s not forgetting small change. Trump ordered ...

The wager is that those older pennies contain copper that would be worth about $180,000 at current prices. One snag: It’s illegal to melt a mass of Lincoln cents to harvest the metal. But penny ...

And without the penny, the whole thing faces an uncertain future. New copper pennies vanished from circulation in 1982 — 73 years after the first Lincoln penny was minted — and were replaced ...

We owe a lot to copper. But the metal now faces an uncertain future as manufacturers prepare to expand its use to make the electric cars, renewable power plants, and other devices that will help ...

President Trump’s plan to eliminate the penny could save the government money ... specific materials (mostly zinc for pennies, mostly copper for nickels). Rhett Jeppson, a former chief executive ...

The coin was larger and made of pure copper, while today’s penny is made of copper and zinc. During the colonial period, people used a mixture of coins from other countries. A popular coin was ...

The coin was larger and made of pure copper, while today’s penny is made of copper and zinc. During the colonial period, people used a mixture of coins from other countries. A popular coin was ...

and to contain eleven penny-weights of copper.” Congress can modify this act anytime it wants – and it has. The 1792 act also required the mint to produce “Half Cents – each to be of the ...