The US Mint Mint Dint Sen Last Penny in Philadelphia on Wednesday, according to a report from Related Press. And while the coin may be going strong, the humble penny may be harder to find.

President Donald Trump first declared in February that the pennies should no longer be frozen, describing it as a trend to increase spending.

“Until now it’s been a long time since the United States had mini pennies that literally cost the US more than 2 cents. It’s so weak!” Trump wrote in Social truth. “I’m ordering my US Treasury secretary to stop making new pennies. We’re going to take the waste out of our great nation’s budgets, even if it’s one penny at a time.”

Trump actually underestimated the cost of making the penny. It was 2.7 cents in 2022 but bumped up to 3.7 cents in 2024, according to Wall Street Journal. Before the Penny, the last time the US MINT stopped making a half cent cent coin was in 1857. At the time the half penny was worth about 18 cents of money.

It is understood to stop the production of pennies, but about everything everyone agrees that Trump is acting in the wrong way. The President is not coordinating with Congress or retailers on a phase-out plan, something other countries are doing more aggressively. Canada stopped producing one cent coins in 2012 and encourages businesses to round to the nearest five cents.

“We’ve proposed eliminating sentiment for 30 years. But this is not the way we want it to go,” Jeff Leenard from the National Stores Association told the AP last month.

As a result, many stores are asking customers to pay in exact change (including pennies), something Gizmodo spotted at a grocery store in San Diego, California. The sign on the self-checkout machine reads: “The US Treasury has stopped making pennies, which is now influencing the supply.

The US MINT in Philadelphia has been making pennies since 1793, when they were made of 100% copper. Since 1982, the Penny has been made of pled-plated zinc, composed of 97.5% zinc and 2.5% copper. The first penny shows a flowing hair”FREEDOM“The design has changed many times over the decades, including the Eagle Design flight (1857-58), the Indian head scheme (1859-1909), and the Lincoln sentiment, with slight differences since it was first introduced in 1909.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bsess and Treasurer Brandon Beach were reportedly at the US Mint in Philadelphia for the final production of the penny on Wednesday.