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"Pennies Minted by the U.S. Mint from 1970 to 2002". Archived from the original on August 18, 2006. This page was last edited on 29 October 2024, at 21:54 ...
The penny, also known as the cent, is a coin in the United States representing one-hundredth of a dollar.It has been the lowest face-value physical unit of U.S. currency since the abolition of the half-cent in 1857 (the abstract mill, which has never been minted, equal to a tenth of a cent, continues to see limited use in the fields of taxation and finance).
The half-dollar continued to be minted in a 40% silver-clad composition between 1965 and 1970. Dimes and quarters from before 1965 and half-dollars from before 1971 are generally not in circulation due to being removed for their silver content. Some modern commemorative coins have been minted in the silver dollar denominations.
There used to be a saying -- "pennies make dimes and dimes make dollars" -- that stressed the importance of saving your money (the phrase later showed up in a country song). Today, some Lincoln...
A penny, on its face, is worth one cent. $0.01 U.S. dollars. On the other hand, that same penny -- if melted down for the copper it contains -- could be worth quite a bit more. Due to the fact ...
The United States 1000 dollar bill (US$1000) is an obsolete denomination of United States currency. It was issued by the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) beginning in 1861 and ending in 1934.
Even if you can’t find pennies from this era worth hundreds of dollars, it’s not unusual to find varieties worth between $5 and $30 across all years, according to prices listed on the Coin ...
Fijian dollar; Guyanese dollar, but there are no circulating coins with a value below one dollar. Hong Kong dollar, but all circulating coins are in multiples of 10 cents. Indonesian rupiah (as sen; last coin minted was 50 cents in 1961, last cents printed as banknotes in 1964 which were demonetized in 1996 save for the 1 cent)