Outside the Denver Mint earlier this week, school groups and tourists waited in the sunshine, lined up against the side of the downtown building for a chance to see where America’s money is made. But there was one coin they definitely wouldn’t get to see pressed.
Just days earlier, United States Treasurer Brandon Beach had struck the final circulating one-cent coin in a ceremony at the Philadelphia Mint. “The event marks the official end of the penny’s 232-year production run as a circulating coin,” according to a press release from the Mint.
Jessa Shepherd, a second-grader at Elk Creek Elementary School, shared her own two cents on the news, just before starting the Mint tour as part of a field trip with her classmates and some of their parents…