Trump orders Treasury to stop minting pennies. How much copper is in a penny? Here's how much it cost to mint a penny.

Per the latest U.S. Mint report, it costs less than six cents to make a dime ($0.0576). To make a quarter, it cost about 15 cents ($0.1468), and nearly 34 cents for a half-dollar ($0.3397).

Every penny costs 3.7 cents to manufacture and the U.S. Treasury lost $85.3 million in 2024 producing them, the U.S. Mint ...

The penny has been in the crosshairs of Trump officials since he took office. Last month, DOGE, the department run by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, said that producing 4.5 billion pennies in Fiscal ...

Despite childhood nostalgia associated with the coin, Rok, 70, said he agreed with Trump’s assessment that the penny simply costs too much. Many others agreed with him. USA TODAY spoke with ...

President Donald Trump said he ordered the production of new pennies to halt because it costs almost four cents to produce ...

President Trump wants to end production of the penny It takes about 3.7 cents to produce and distribute one penny A 233-year run could be over. President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he is ...

Shortly after departing Sunday's Super Bowl game in New Orleans, the president took to his Truth Social site and said that the penny now costs more than two cents to produce. It's one of the ...

So much for the maxim “a penny saved is a penny earned.” No longer will you be able to offer someone “a penny for your ...