In light of President Donald Trump's desire to eliminate the penny, it's noteworthy that one of the most significant coins ...

In 2009, the Strawberry Leaf penny broke records for the most money paid for a penny ... The Flying Eagle cent may not be as rare as the 1943 Lincoln cents, but they are still worth more than ...

With few exceptions, copper coins in the U.S. mean one-cent pennies — usually those featuring Abraham Lincoln. The most valuable Lincoln penny is worth $2 million on the collectibles market ...

In nearly all cases, however, the most valuable coins are the rarest. Some rare coins have reached a certain level of fame because of their backstories. An example is the 1943 copper Lincoln penny ...

The penny’s demise would leave the nickel as the smallest physical token of wealth transfer. One might then expect many ...

Now he has set his sights on the humble penny. The Lincoln one-cent coin could be ... in terms of their face values. He ordered the Treasury Department and the U.S. Mint to stop producing the ...

“The Lincoln ... the rare occasion that a new coin could become a hot commodity in real time. This year so far, the US Mint has struck 242 million pennies, according to the most recent data ...

The wager is that those older pennies contain copper that would be worth about $180,000 at current prices. One snag: It’s illegal to melt a mass of Lincoln ... the more valuable older pennies ...

Most products don’t have round dollar values and ... passing of Abraham Lincoln. But declare the end by social media post and watch suspicion and resentment spread like pennies from heaven.