Trump instructs Treasury to halt penny production

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33. He continues to proceed as if there is no "Article I" of the Constitution, only Article II

And specifically -

Article I

(snip)

Section 8.

The Congress shall have power

(snip)

To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;

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https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei

Our Mint here in Philly makes pennies (and other coins - all with the "P" mint mark) -



The current building is fairly "new" (opened in 1969) and I remember as a kid in middle school, when they would give us tours in there and we would get a bag of 50 pennies at the end of the tour!

In fact, the building that it used to be in just before the current was built, had itself been built in 1901, and was across the street from the middle/junior high school that I went to. It has "VNITED STATES MINT" carved across the top cornice (the building has been used by the Community College of Philadelphia since the mint operations moved) -



The 2 earlier buildings before the 1901 one have since been demolished -

Original -



2nd -



(sorry to throw all that in a reply to you - I grew up with that Mint and even worked with a guy at my agency who had worked there before moving to my lab at the time )