This special auction of nearly 700 rare pennies brought a small fortune – nearly $16.8 million.
Those coins, auctioned on Thursday, Dec. 11, by Stack’s Bowers Galleries, included the last 2025 circulated pennies produced at the U.S. Mint, paired in sets of three coins, each including a unique 24-karat gold uncirculated penny.
The auction of 232 three-coin sets – with a gold penny and a single penny from each of the final runs at the Mint’s production plants in Philadelphia and Denver – went to winning bids totaling $16,764,500, according to the auction house.
The Treasury Department and U.S. Mint decided to create the special run of coins after the Treasury Department followed the order of President Donald Trump to stop minting pennies, noting that each one-cent coin costs 3.7 cents to produce.
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