Elimination of the $1 note will lead to greater dollar coin production (at 88.5 percent copper composition). To try to wrap that effort in a message of saving money for the American taxpayer is ...

Unwanted dollar coins are piling up in Federal Reserve vaults around the country, ... Tim Brooks just got back from a trip to Hawaii, all on miles, thanks in part, to the U.S. Mint.

At least, if everyone was taking the law seriously, some recently issued US dollar coins would be illegal to own or use inside the United States. This is a slightly complex story but one I find ...

A joint inquiry by NPR's Planet Money and Investigations teams found that more than $1 billion of unused dollar coins are the wasteful byproducts of another failed congressional effort to replace ...