Dec. 16 (UPI) — The final pennies minted in the United States were sold for more than $16.76 million in a special auction and set a record as the most valuable modern U.S. coin ever sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The auction held last week by Stack’s Bowers Galleries in California included 232 sets featuring three of the one-cent coins that President Donald Trump<\/a> earlier ordered<\/a> the Treasury Department to stop minting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Each of the pennies was marked with the Greek letter Omega, signifying the end of the 238-year-old U.S. currency denomination, according to a press release<\/a> from the auction house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Among the set of pennies auctioned off was a 2025 penny produced at the Philadelphia Mint, a “2025-D” penny produced at the Denver Mint and a 24-karat gold penny also produced at the Philadelphia Mint, according to the press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The beginning of the sale was delayed due to “unprecedented levels of collector interest” and took place over the course of four hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “They captured the public imagination like few rare coins we’ve ever handled,” Stack’s Bowers Galleries President Brian Kendrella said in the press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The pennies’ overall sale value pencils out to more than $72,000 on average for each three-coin set, according to the auction house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The last set went for $800,000, the highest among 17 sets that went for more than $100,000, setting a new record for the most valuable modern U.S coin. The prior record was a Space Flown 24 Karat Gold Sacagawea sold by Stack’s Bowers for $550,000 in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n