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

It’s unclear exactly how high demand would be for nickels in a penny-less world, but it’s likely that it would be higher than ...

The U.S. has been producing $2 bills for as long as it has printed paper money, dating back to 1862. There was, however, a stretch of time from 1966 to 1976 when the Federal Reserve stopped printing ...

Printing a paper $1 bill is cheaper than ... the penny will become the 12th U.S. currency denomination to be retired, joining the half-cent coin, the 2-cent coin, the 20-cent piece and the ...

For example, the federal government pays less than $100 for the paper and ink ... cost less than one cent. But decades of deficit-fueled inflation devalued America’s currency, so much so that ...