In December 2025, The U.S. Mint ended 232 years of minting the U.S. 1 cent coin. Its purchasing power had shrunk to nearly nothing, and it was costing nearly 4 cents of each cent convincepackaged the last 232 cents from each of the three mints – Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco into a three-pack. Those were the only ones marked with an omega symbol privy mark, sympathizing the end.. And the cent from the Philadelphia Mint was 24 karat gold.The first 231 of those three-packs sold at auction for an average of $70,000 each and the very last one was bid up to $800,000.
Mint markets the heck out of the last pennies created in the U.S.
