U.S. Mint presses final pennies as production ends after more than 230 years
The U.S. ended production of the penny Wednesday, abandoning the 1-cent coins that were embedded in American culture for more than 230 years as symbols of frugality and the price of a person's thoughts but had become nearly worthless.
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