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By stopping the one-cent coin’s production, one official says the Treasury expects an immediate annual savings of $56 million in reduced material costs.
Treasury Department will take pennies out of circulation next year. Costly nickels, however, could cancel out savings.
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
“For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us ... plans for nickel production. It did estimate an immediate savings to taxpayers of $56 million from the halt of ...