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 ...

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 ...