The Half-Penny Revolution: Narrowing the Spread. The SEC's decision to allow stock markets to price shares in increments of half a penny is designed to address this issue.

Alameda coin dealer Larry Bovo expects people to rush out and get "last issue" rolls of shiny new 2025 pennies. Before the penny, Americans had the half-penny. The penny has been in circulation ...

In 2013, I wrote a Forbes column that became one of my most-read and most-cited, “Don’t You Dare Eliminate the Penny.” In it I considered the views of elite opinionators who wanted the ...

The Gas Station . The most straightforward way to spend a single penny seemed to be at the gas station, where regular unleaded was $3.099 a gallon.

The Treasury Department has pledged to stop producing the penny by early next year. Here's why ... a quarter costs 14.68 cents to make — less than its 25-cent value — and a half-dollar coin ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The impending “death” of the U.S. penny has spotlighted the coin's own price tag — nearly 4 cents to make and distribute each, or quadruple its value.

The penny costs nearly 4 cents to make. ... U.S. Mint said it shipped 52 million half-dollar coins in its 2024 fiscal year, up from 18 million coins shipped in the 2023 period.