# The last American penny coin has been minted this week **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 16, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-american-penny-coin-has-been-minted-this-week/1024897 "2025-11-16T13:39:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-american-penny-coin-has-been-minted-this-week/1024897/3 "2025-11-16T13:44:48Z")
It is long overdue and the nickel should also go. Pennies have stayed around for no reason for far too long. I do have a bunch of wheat pennies I had collected when young and some very worn older Indian Head pennies that my grandfather had collected from when he was a cabbie. Their value is apparently about a penny as they are very worn. Somewhere there is a related thread to this, but this should be fine as an additional stand alone. ETA: Related active thread: > [@Do you use pennies (USA one cent coin)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-pennies-usa-one-cent-coin/1013421): > > I read recently that a significant number of pennies are not spent. A typical consumer, when they get pennies in change will throw them into a jar or will sometimes throw them in the trash when they get home. The significant number of these coins are not spent and put back into circulation. As for myself, I will sometime take four pennies when I go to the grocery store. If the total amount of my purchase is is $17.78 I will give the cashier a twenty dollar bill and three pennies. The chang… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-american-penny-coin-has-been-minted-this-week/1024897)._