Most people toss pennies into jars, forget them in couch cushions, or leave them on gas station counters without a second ...

You might not think much about the spare change jingling in your pocket, but there's a particular penny that could be worth far more than one cent. It's hard to believe that something so ordinary ...

HOUSTON -- Find a penny, pick it up - especially if it's this one. The rare 1943 copper wheat pennies are reportedly fetching $85,000 at auctions, according to CoinTrackers. CoinTrackers says there ...

Yes, almost all copper coins in the U.S. are pennies, but these can be worth all the way up to $2 million if the right criteria are met for quality and rarity.

Fiscally, the mint didn’t have a logical choice. It was costing about 4 cents to mint a single penny, and that’s mostly due to production costs, not because the price of copper has soared. Since 1982, ...