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

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

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

Find Out: 10 Rare Coins Expected To Soar in Value in the Next Five Years Your $20 Bill ... If you could stockpile enough Lincoln Wheat cents and Lincoln Memorial cents, you could end up ...

The penny was struck at the Denver Mint in 2001 and features the usual portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the front or obverse. What it doesn’t have is the normal Lincoln Memorial on the reverse.

Pennies make up more than half of the coins made at the Philadelphia mint, but coin demand has dropped by nearly 10 billion ...

The last time I was at the Lincoln Memorial ... back together and of achieving and cherishing “a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” Obtaining quiet after years ...

The penny was one of ... on one side and wreath on the back, pennies known as the “Indian Head” design. Indian Head designs lasted until 1909 when Abraham Lincoln became the first president ...