It was Theodore Roosevelt — a lifelong admirer of Abraham Lincoln — who ordered the U.S. Mint to introduce copper pennies ...

The Lincoln Wheat Penny has been valued at an astonishing price, with some of the rarest versions of the coin rumored to be ...

New England numismatists have conflicting feelings about the potential end to a coin that has survived more than 200 years of ...

The trouble with being the sort of person who gives credit where it's due is the sort of people you sometimes have to give ...

Congress, the Supreme Court, the central bank, the President's House — all national institutions that graced Philadelphia ...

The U.S. Mint produces more than 13 billion pennies each year, although the official name is the “cent” not penny.

The penny was first minted in 1909 to commemorate ... when the reverse side was replaced with the Lincoln Memorial, but despite it's age many variations of the coin are still very valuable and ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Treasury to stop minting the penny, reviving the debate over the future of ...

Ending production of the penny makes sense, a cross-section of area coin collectors and business owners told TribLive after a ...

This wheat design remained on the penny until 1958, when it was replaced by the Lincoln Memorial design. As a result, the Lincoln Wheat Penny has become an iconic piece of U.S. coinage history ...

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...