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Coverage dated December 15, 2025 to December 16, 2025

A pretty penny: Last one-cent coins ever minted fetch $16.7 million at auction

Headline from NBC10 Philadelphia

A total of 232 sets featuring a 2025 penny and a 24-karat gold penny from the Philadelphia Mint and a 2025-D penny from the Denver Mint were sold.

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  1. ABC 7 Los Angeles

    A pretty penny: Last US cents sell for $16.7 million (opens ABC 7 Los Angeles)

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    ABC 7 Los Angeles's feed description

    The last circulating pennies sold for over $16.76 million in an auction on Thursday, according to Stack's Bowers Galleries.

  2. MyNorthwest

    Last U.S. cents sold at auction for a sum of $16.76 million were worth a pretty penny (opens MyNorthwest)

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    To those who argue that the U.S. penny had no value: some coin collectors beg to differ.

  3. NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

    A pretty penny: Last one-cent coins ever minted fetches $16.7 million at auction (opens NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)

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    NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth's feed description

    A total of 232 sets featuring a 2025 penny and a 24-karat gold penny from the Philadelphia Mint and a 2025-D penny from the Denver Mint were sold.

  4. NBC10 Philadelphia

    A pretty penny: Last one-cent coins ever minted fetch $16.7 million at auction (opens NBC10 Philadelphia)

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    NBC10 Philadelphia's feed description

    A total of 232 sets featuring a 2025 penny and a 24-karat gold penny from the Philadelphia Mint and a 2025-D penny from the Denver Mint were sold.

  5. KOB 4

    Last US cents sold at auction for a sum of $16.76 million were worth a pretty penny (opens KOB 4)

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    KOB 4's feed description

    Auction bidders spent top dollar for some of the final pennies to be circulated in the U.S. before the government ended the cent’s production. The U.S. Mint sold 232 three-cent sets for a whopping sum of $16.76 million last Thursday.

  6. Seattle Times

    The last cents minted in U.S. have sold at auction for a pretty penny (opens Seattle Times)

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    Seattle Times's feed description

    Auction bidders spent top dollar for some of the final pennies to be circulated in the U.S. before the government ended the cent’s production.

  7. PhillyVoice

    Auction of nearly 700 of the last pennies pressed in Philly and Denver totals over $16 million (opens PhillyVoice)

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    The U.S. Mint last week auctioned 232 three-coin sets of the last pennies produced in Philadelphia and Denver. The final set, which included the dies used to imprint the coins, sold for $800,000.

  8. New York Post

    Last US pennies ever minted fetch whopping $16.7 million at auction (opens New York Post)

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    New York Post's feed description

    The last-ever minted US pennies were auctioned off for a whopping $16.7 million last Thursday.

  9. WSVN Miami

    Last US cents sold at auction for a sum of $16.76 million were worth a pretty penny - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports (opens WSVN Miami)

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    To those who argue that the U.S. penny had no value: some coin collectors beg to differ.In fact, they doled out millions for the final

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