{"id":15956,"date":"2026-03-28T18:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15956"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:45:19","slug":"2025-is-the-year-we-lost-our-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15956","title":{"rendered":"2025 is the year we lost our cents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As of late 2025, the cost of making a penny rose to 3.69 cents. So as of Nov. 12, 2025 – no more pennies will be minted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, November 12th, 2025 is when the US lost its cents.<\/p>\n\n\n

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https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/featured-stories\/penny-production-cessation-faqs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As of late 2025, the cost of making a penny rose to 3.69 cents. So as of Nov. 12, 2025 – no more pennies will be minted. So, November 12th, 2025 is when the US lost its cents. https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/featured-stories\/penny-production-cessation-faqs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-49m","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16166,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956\/revisions\/16166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}