The U.S. Mint in Philadelphia is set to strike its last circulating penny on Wednesday as the president has canceled the 1-cent coin as the cost of making them became more than their value. President ...

The U.S. government started making pennies in Philadelphia in 1792 when the city was the nation’s capital. It stopped Wednesday, as U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach stepped up to a machine in the penny ...

An employee of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia allegedly threatened a Black colleague by leaving a noose on their seat. According to the New York Times, this white male coin maker walked across the ...

Suspected of tying a large rope into a hangman’s noose and leaving it on the chair of an African-American colleague, an employee of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia has been placed on administrative ...

For today’s Mardi Gras revelers, the doubloon seems as commonplace as beads or a king cake. But prior to 1960, "doubloons" meant historic gold loaded onto Spanish galleons, long ago. “It was an ...

Thanks to Paul Woolford, AIA, IIDA, LEED AP BD+C, design director in HOK’s San Francisco office, for this post describing the vision for the San Francisco Museum at the Mint adaptive reuse project, ...