The idea that a penny dropped from a skyscraper could be deadly has been repeated for decades. Physics tells a different story, showing how air resistance, mass, and terminal velocity limit what a ...

People gathered in the nation’s capital on Saturday to pay their respects to the penny. A mock funeral, hosted by financial management platform Ramp, was held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, ...

Hundreds of mock mourners headed to the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday to attend a “funeral” for the penny. Along with musicians playing taps, there were a couple of Abraham Lincoln look-alikes, actors ...

The penny received a “funeral” on Saturday, attended by mourners and Abraham Lincoln impersonators outside the Lincoln Memorial, after the U.S. Mint discontinued the coin last month. Hundreds attended ...

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As the U.S. Treasury phases out the use of the penny, it’s creating a host of new challenges for businesses and consumers that could cost all of us a good chunk of change. That’s because eliminating ...

Alonda Emery can’t figure out what she’d call that thing sitting in the corner of her place of employment, the Flameburger in Little Canada. For all of her 42 years, she’s known the machines as penny ...

Philadelphia — A wheel cranks on the machine at the Independence Visitor Center, slowing with every turn until: CLINK! A reward drops out the bottom waiting to be collected. It’s a familiar, elongated ...

The U.S. penny may finally be on its way out. Producing each coin now costs the U.S. Mint about 3.7 cents, at a total taxpayer cost of more than $100 million per year. Ending production may make ...

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After more than 230 years of steady service, the humble one-cent piece is retiring—for now. The United States Mint pressed its final circulating penny on November 12, 2025. While the penny remains ...