According to a 2024 US Mint report, the 5-cent coin also costs more to produce than its face value, with each nickel costing nearly 15 cents to make. Dimes, quarters, half-dollars and paper bills ...

He knows that our neighbors to the north ditched one-cent coins more ... so far, the US Mint has struck 242 million pennies, according to the most recent data, which is 7.5 percent of the total ...