��The Fantastic Penny Debate_ Need to We Maintain Making the Penny_ The U.S. One Cent coin, or penny, has almost no getting energy these days. The price of producing pennies in 2019 was 1.99 cents per coin. This cost includes the metal content and the labor utilised to produce them. The expense of producing them is larger than face worth. The melt value of pennies ranges from much more than two cents for the�pre-1982 copper pennies, to practically a full cent for the copper-plated zinc pennies. However, the penny is a very sentimental coin to most Americans, and a lot of individuals fear that eliminating the penny would raise prices since things would need to have to be rounded up to the�nearest nickel.