The president could promptly end the production of new pennies, but phasing out the coin would take time and mean changes at ...
It was Theodore Roosevelt — a lifelong admirer of Abraham Lincoln — who ordered the U.S. Mint to introduce copper pennies ...
No S’ Proof Lincoln Cent continues to surface, with three more recently discovered. Once thought to be nearly all accounted ...
There used to be a saying — “pennies make dimes and dimes make dollars” — that stressed the importance of saving your money (the phrase later showed up in a country song). Today, some ...
One day in 1955 in the United States Mint (located in Philadelphia), a Lincoln cent was given two blows from a coin press ...