I still have a few hundred coins in a bowl on my kitchen shelf – like that drawer of old electronics you don’t throw out ...

And the nickel and dime, too!” McArdle commented that if she sees a penny on the street, “I don’t bother to lean down and pick it up.” “It’s not worth my time,” Goins agreed.

It sure looks like the penny's days may be numbered, with 42 percent of Americans saying they support the ...

I can’t call heads or tails on whether we should stop minting the penny. There are two sides to every coin, right?

With an estimated 240 billion pennies in circulation, it’ll be a long time before we stop seeing them in the wild.

Scrap the cent or keep it; I don’t care. But let the decision be based on sound reasoning, not on gaudy talking points that add nothing to the debate.

each penny costs 3.7 cents to make, including 3 cents for production costs, and 0.7 cents per coin for administrative and distribution costs. But each nickel costs 13.8 cents, with 11 cents of ...

No need to nickel-and-dime it. One solution to the penny problem is to just use paper currency. When I was at military facilities in South Korea in the early 1950s, we were required to use scrips ...

Rest in peace, nickel. In loving memory, dime. Be with the angels ... that bowl of coins I keep on a kitchen shelf. I found one penny tarnished by time, and to check the year, I put on my readers ...