The U.S. Mint and Treasury Department have confirmed that the penny is on its last legs as the former recently made its final ...

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.

After 233 years of production, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that the production of the penny will come to an end.