Total unit cost includes administrative and distribution costs. The production costs of coins can be confusing. A nickel is worth half as much as a dime but costs twice as much to mint.

When President Donald Trump announced his intention to eliminate the penny Sunday, he cited the rising cost of producing the coin. Data from the U.S. Treasury shows it’s not the only coin that costs ...

President Donald Trump said he’s instructed the Secretary of the US Treasury to stop making new pennies, writing that they “literally cost us more than 2 cents.” He’s right — in fact, each US penny ...

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.

Nickels are made of 75% copper and 25% nickel, while pennies, despite their reputation of being a copper coin are copper-plated zinc, meaning they are only 2.5% copper and 97.5% zinc. While all ...

Or what about to any other coin or paper bill ... we would have to get rid of the penny, the nickel and the dime! Molly: No, not the nickel and dime! Megan: Honestly, I think the nickel in ...

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

In short, Indonesia’s nationalistic approach is likely to be a costly failure. In contrast to nickel processing, where its ...