It's the end of an era. After 233 years, the U.S. Mint will stop making cents. A Treasury Department spokesperson confirmed to USA TODAY that the government placed its last order of blank coins to ...

We tend to take it for granted that a coin is worth its face value and, in many respects it is. But have you ever thought about what it costs to actually make those coins? How they are made, what goes ...

Coin collecting, or numismatics (a term that also includes the study of coins), has been a practice for at least 2,000 years, with Augustus — also known as Octavian — famously gifting a variety of ...

Coin collecting, or numismatics (a term which also encompasses the study of coins), has been a practice for at least 2,000 years, with Augustus — also known as Octavian — famously gifting a variety of ...