People gathered in the nation’s capital on Saturday to pay their respects to the penny. A mock funeral, hosted by financial management platform Ramp, was held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, ...

WASHINGTON, DC — A mock funeral for the penny, which was discontinued earlier this year, was held Saturday in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

Hundreds of mock mourners headed to the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday to attend a “funeral” for the penny. Along with musicians playing taps, there were a couple of Abraham Lincoln look-alikes, actors ...

The penny received a “funeral” on Saturday, attended by mourners and Abraham Lincoln impersonators outside the Lincoln Memorial, after the U.S. Mint discontinued the coin last month. Hundreds attended ...

This special auction of nearly 700 rare pennies brought a small fortune – nearly $16.8 million. Those coins, auctioned on Thursday, Dec. 11, by Stack’s Bowers Galleries, included the last 2025 ...

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They’re worth a pretty penny. The last-ever minted US pennies were auctioned off for a whopping $16.76 million last Thursday. The millions were doled out for 232 three-coin sets, marking the highest ...

History was hammered into copper one last time, as America’s final circulating pennies shattered auction records. Stack’s Bowers Galleries, a California auction house, announced that the 232 sets of ...

The penny was first minted in 1793, per the auctioneers. America's smallest coins just brought in some big bucks. Pennies from the final minted set of the coin sold for over $16.76 million at auction ...

Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, were found dead at their home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Reiner was 78-year-old. Reiner was first married to Penny Marshall. He later ...

The actor and director lived what she called a "charmed and lucky life." Here's a look back at her biggest moments “Penny was a girl from the Bronx, who came out West, put a cursive ‘L’ on her sweater ...