I'm just about old enough to remember little pieces of candy that sold for a penny at a little wooden-floored store near my ...

Some old pennies are worth more than the one cent they represent. Here’s a quick explainer on rare pennies and how to tell if you have a rare penny.

That’s a lot of coin. A Lincoln wheat penny minted in 1955 sold this month for $2,050 on eBay because it contains a rare feature known as a “double die error ...

Online chatter has lots of folks looking at their caches of coins in search of Lincoln wheat pennies they unrealistically hope are priceless.

The rare 1909 Lincoln cent attracted 37 bidders, suggesting a heated fight for the prized coin. But what makes this penny so remarkable that it would go for such an incredible sum? What ...

As a historian, I came to understand the broader, symbolic importance of the Lincoln penny. The most titanic of our presidents had been intentionally commemorated on the very smallest denomination ...

It’s time to rummage through your old change jar – you just might have millions of dollars stashed away in your cabinets. The penny was one of the first coins made by the U.S. Mint after its ...

A “wheat penny,” sometimes also called a “Lincoln wheat cent” or a “Lincoln penny,” is a penny that has Abraham Lincoln’s portrait on one side and two ears of wheat on the other.