Treasury advances Trump’s plan to stop minting penny
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The cost of producing a single penny has already skyrocketed to about 4 cents, while consumers have mostly shifted to digital payments and cards.
The Trump administration says making cents doesn't make sense anymore. The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out, a Treasury Department official confirmed Thursday.
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The U.S. Mint will make pennies as long as the blanks exist, but once they run out, there will be no more pennies produced, CNN reported. The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story, said that no new pennies will be added to circulation by early next year.
It's been more than 230 years since the United States first produced the pennies that have been in circulation ever since. However, the coins could be
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