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A historic chapter in American monetary history has concluded with the record-breaking sale of the final “Omega” penny set ...

The U.S. Mint has officially stopped making pennies – but that doesn’t mean some aren’t worth more than one cent. In fact, the last pennies ever minted are worth a pretty penny. Auction house Stack’s ...

The penny might seem like a fairly useless denomination these days, but one 1792 example of the humble copper coin could fetch a princely price of as much as $2 million at the Henry P. Kendall ...

Two of the rarest one cent coins ever made have sold at auction for a combined total close to half a million dollars. A 1943 Lincoln Penny fetched $282,000 while a 1792 Birch Cent which had been ...