Take a penny, leave a penny, get rid of the penny
Episode
9 min
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2 min
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Product & Tech Trends
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What It Covers
The US Mint stops penny production after 232 years due to rising costs reaching 3.7 cents per coin.
Notable Moment
Artist Robert Wexler spent seven years creating a sculpture from 100,000 pennies, ordering them in bulk from banks.
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