The federal government made its final order of penny blanks in May − the first step to end the production of the 1-cent coin, ...

The penny has been around "nearly as long as America ," said Oyin Adedoyin and Ken Thomas in The Wall Street Journal.

Got a piggy bank full of pennies? The small currency will soon be a thing of the past, but don't think you are sitting on a gold mine just yet.

The science pros at TKOR demonstrate how to make a 3-penny battery for DIY power on a budget.

L earning how to press flowers is not as difficult as you might think. The technique makes an ephemeral beauty eternal by ...

West country artists China Blue Fish and Naomi Smyth are the winners of a new £15,000 award which will see them develop a ...

The United States wouldn't be the first country to eliminate the coin, Turco said. Canada, for example, decided to phase out ...

Festival Country Indiana has added a souvenir penny press machine and a patriotic photo spot to its downtown Franklin visitor center. Daily Journal file photo Festival Country is cutting the ...

In another effort to spark excitement as out-of-towners and local residents alike spend time in the county, Festival Country Indiana has added a penny press to its visitor center. The hand-powered ...

Today’s are mostly zinc. On the Facebook group of Pressed Penny Collectors, whose members seek out machines that flatten the coins into oval-shaped souvenirs, nostalgia has been negligible.

When pressed and elongated, the older pennies maintain "a ghost image of the printed head of Lincoln," said Brian Peters, general manager of Minnesota-based Penny Press Machine Co. Jeweler Angelo ...

Alan Fleming of Scotland owns Penny Press Factory, one of a number of companies around the world that manufacture machines that flatten and stamp coins. "A lovely retired gentleman in Boston sold ...