Someone just paid a pretty penny for two rare 1-cent coins. And by a pretty penny, we mean a grand total of nearly $870,000. A 1792 silver center cent sold for $352,500 at a Heritage auction in ...

Two rare one-cent coins from the earliest days of the U.S. Mint have sold for a pretty penny. The copper coins, both dating to 1792, went for a combined total of $869,500 at the auction held ...

The U.S. Treasury Department has placed its final order for penny blanks—the metal discs that are eventually minted into one-cent coins ... American currency since 1792, but its exit may ...

The Treasury Department said it placed its final order for penny blanks this month as the U.S. moves to end production of the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two rare one-cent coins from the earliest days of the U.S. Mint have sold for a pretty penny. The copper coins, both dating to 1792, went for a combined total of $869,500 at ...

BALTIMORE (AP) - An early trial of America's first 1-cent coin now costs quite a ... million in Baltimore.The coin is known as the 1792 Birch cent. It was made as a trial, just months after ...

The penny might seem like a fairly useless denomination these days, but one 1792 example of the humble ... Designed by Robert Birch, the so-called Birch Cent is one of the first coins minted ...