The Mint projects an immediate annual savings of $56 million in reduced material costs from stopping penny production, and additional savings will be achieved as facility usage is adjusted, the Treasury said.

The US Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out, a Treasury Department official

The federal government made its final order of penny blanks this month — marking the first step to end the production of the one-cent coin, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of the Treasury confirmed to USA TODAY.

The Treasury Department placed its last order for penny blanks earlier this month, fulfilling a bipartisan, and DOGE, dream.

The U.S. government is no longer going to mint pennies, and soon cash retail transactions will be rounded to the nearest nickel. What, exactly, does a single penny buy you these days? We took a drive around town to find out.

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